Legal framework to regulate energy sector

According to local dailies, the UAE Government is developing a comprehensive legal framework to regulate the energy sector, according to Matar Hamed Al Neyadi, Undersecretary of the Minister of Energy. “This framework will regulate and defined energy production, energy resources, waste recycling and energy saving and all other issues related to the energy sector. We are coordinating with all government entities across the UAE to develop these rules and regulations,” Neyadi told media on the sideline of World Green Economy Summit in Dubai last month.

The energy committee which develop the energy policy in the UAE has recently define that 24 per cent of power should be produced by clean resource. The committee also set rules to recycle 75 per cent of the country’s waste. Currently 90 per cent of the UAE’s waste is dumped, while only 10 per cent are recycled, Neyadi said.