The EIU report says that the economic growth, along with the increasing population in states like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and UAE, is forcing the government to meet the power demands. So, they had to take that step to meet the rapidly increasing demands.
Dalton Garis, Associate Professor at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, told Gulf News that “in terms of power sector growth, the GCC countries are a bit behind but this can be accelerated as they have the money available to develop the sector and they can attract private investments too into the industry”.
