The Ministry of Energy revealed that Saudi Arabia ranked first in the world in the growth of renewable energy production, two years after the Crown Prince launched the Saudi Green Initiative. the green.
The ministry indicated that Saudi Arabia has launched, during the past two years, a number of new projects in the fields of energy that contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow, as it was able to launch 17 new renewable energy projects with a capacity of 13.76 gigawatts to remove about 23.1 million equivalent tons of carbon dioxide annually, with the launch of the largest complex. In the world to produce clean hydrogen, with a production capacity of 250,000 tons annually by 2026, in addition to launching the first phase of the largest regional center for capturing, transporting and storing carbon dioxide in Jubail Industrial City, with a capacity of 9 million tons annually by 2027, with a maximum capacity of up to 44 million tons annually by 2035.
According to the electronic initiative page, about $5 billion (18.75 billion riyals) has been invested in the green hydrogen station in the NEOM project, to produce sufficient quantities of hydrogen to fuel 20,000 buses per day, in addition to 541 square kilometers of the targeted afforestation area in the Riyadh project. green by planting 7.5 million trees to transform the Saudi capital into a green oasis, and investing 346 billion riyals in the Riyadh sustainability strategy to reduce carbon emissions and raise the proportion of electric vehicles in the city to 30% by 2030, with an investment of 15 billion dollars (56.25 billion riyals) in a scheme The new Al-Ula is to establish the largest oasis in the world, and includes plans to establish natural green spaces of up to 10 million square meters, with the planting of more than 4 million mangrove trees as part of efforts to restore mangrove forests on the shores of the Kingdom.
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