How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets? In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region's access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region's energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall. In doing so, the book situates the energy transition in the Middle East in a broader context of economic development, financing models, and regulations, and explains how this context interacts with the development of new energy sources. Energy Transitions in the Middle East is an account of the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition, as well as their key areas of opportunity.

Examines the new energy systems in the Middle East to better understand the trajectory of the region's energy transitions

About the Author
Katherine Wolff is a Nonresident Scholar with the Economics and Energy Program at the Middle East Institute, USA. Karen E. Young is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the Center on Global Energy Policy and also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute, USA.


Book Information
ISBN 9780755650378
Author Katherine Wolff
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC