Abstract
One of the leader's countries with high awareness of Renewable Energy (RE) implementation is the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This research aims to statically investigate the challenges and requirements in the implementation of renewable energy in the UAE. A comprehensive literature review followed by a structured questionnaire was conducted. Eight different factors determined, and then a structured questionnaire was designed and distributed to 94 respondents. The results were analyzed using various statistical methods: one-sample t-test, unpaired two-sample t-test, two-proportion z-test, fisher test, and one-way ANOVA test. 0.98 and 1.000 value of one-sample t-test showed adequate infrastructure and technical skills. The two-sample t-test showed the main difference is in financing renewable energy and infrastructure between professionals and regular community. z-test showed consistent with a two-sample t-test. Fisher test presented positively rate governmental efforts except for the framework for land securement. ANOVA test displayed that the respondents' positions did not affect the perceptions about the availability of the requirements, except for technical skills, where people working on renewable energy projects are more optimistic regarding technical skills. In conclusion, a detailed study needs to be followed in our continuing efforts to analyze the readiness of the UAE to achieve its goals sat for 2050.
Highlights
Renewable energy (RE) is the energy from natural and persistent flows of energy occurring in the immediate environment such as solar, wind, falling water, biomass, and ocean tides
The policies in United Arab Emirates (UAE) are supporting the investment in renewable energy projects
Six requirements including the governmental efforts are positively rated by respondents
Summary
Renewable energy (RE) is the energy from natural and persistent flows of energy occurring in the immediate environment such as solar, wind, falling water, biomass, and ocean tides. Even though the RE is associated with high uncertainty, but the dependency on traditional energy such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and the fear from draining of this resource makes the dependency of these resources is a risk. The other alternative is nuclear energy that has another type of hazard and high-cost investment. The barriers and constraints need to be investigated for each specific country. Painuly (2001) claims that the barriers may vary for different countries in the implementation of renewable energy. The barriers need to be identified and overcome before this potential can be realized. Many researchers tried to investigate and determine the success factors and the barriers to the successful implementation of different types of RE in different countries
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