Saudi Arabia aims to use more renewable energy, but for now it burns more crude oil directly than any other nation in the Middle East, a Wednesday report found. By 2023, Saudi Arabia plans to have 120 gigawatts of solar and nuclear power available, more than twice what’s installed currently. Saudi Arabia has few alternative options for power generation , with no domestic coal reserves and a natural gas sector stymied by a lack of foreign investments. As a result, it’s one of only a few nations in the world that utilizes crude oil directly for power generation . A report for the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a branch of the Energy Department, found Saudi Arabia burned 900,000 barrels of oil per day in July, the highest ever recorded for that month. “Saudi Arabia used an average of 700,000 bpd of crude oil for […]