OAPEC: Aim to Use Renewable Energy at Rates between 4.4 to 40 pct

Secretary General of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) Abbas Al-Naqi said on Monday that some Member States of the Organization aim to use renewable energy in the energy mixture at rates ranging between 4.3 and 40 percent. 
Al-Naqi told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that OAPEC has prepared a special study on the use of renewable energy in the energy mixture in the OAPEC states, especially that the exploitation of renewable energy and the transfer of its own technology is a strategic choice aimed at diversifying the consumed energy mixture. 
He pointed out that in recent years, exploitation of renewable energy sources and the transfer of its technologies to the Member States of the (OAPEC) had emerged as an option aims to diversify the consumed energy mixture and lay its industry locally and market it regionally at first and then work on marketing it globally at a later stage for an additional tributary petroleum sources and contribute to strengthening the sources of income through freeing up more oil and gas for export. 
He stated that the future goals of the OAPEC member states on the use of renewable energy in the energy mixture is to cope with the growing demand for electricity, noting that the study that was prepared by the organization aims to review the current situation of the energy mixture in the Member States and to explore its main features as well as exploring diversification opportunities in the energy mixture in these countries, according to the perspective of the resources available of the stated objectives. 
He pointed out that the study addresses six themes including definition of the status of the Member States in the global energy balance as well as a special focus of energy consumption in these countries, the current mixture of energy, exploring the future prospects of the energy mixture, opportunities for diversity in the mixture and finally findings and recommendations.