Renewable electricity, heat and enabling measures through 2030.
Why it matters
It is the clearest current official planning baseline, while its capacity and generation pathways remain scenarios rather than guarantees.
Core provisions
The operative ideas to understand before reading the full text.
- 01
Reviews renewable deployment and market barriers through 2024.
- 02
Models alternative 2030 capacity, generation and demand pathways.
- 03
Identifies legal, institutional, technical, financial, social and environmental measures for solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy and e-mobility.
Engineering lens
- Maps capacity, generation, grid and technology pathways.
- Includes distributed PV, utility solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy and e-mobility.
Economic and investment lens
- Compares scenario investment and deployment pathways.
- Assumptions require updates for finance, demand, fuel and equipment cost.
From text to operation
Implementation gates
These conditions must be evidenced before treating the instrument as operational for a project, tariff or market transaction.
- 1Annual monitored indicators
- 2Funded projects and grid plan
- 3Regulatory and institutional measures
Verified claims
The NREAP estimates 1,190 MW of distributed solar PV and 1,479 MW of total renewable capacity in 2024.
The NREAP’s Realistic Scenario reaches 40% renewable electricity by 2030, based on 4,320 MW producing 8,749 GWh against 21,856 GWh demand.
Documented relationships
- This instrument plans implementation Law 318
- This instrument incorporates project pipeline Solar licences
- Linked instrument aligns national ambition NDC 3.0
- Linked instrument records earlier 2030 ambition Energy Compact
- Linked instrument supports generation and grid LRESRP
- Linked instrument forms the efficiency companion to NEEAP
- Linked instrument requires plan-level environmental assessment of SEA Decree
- Linked instrument provides the hydropower operating base for LRA mandate
Updates affecting this record
Primary sources
- National Renewable Energy Action Plan 2025-2030 Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Cabinet approves 11 solar photovoltaic licences Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Lebanon’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution UNFCCC · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- SDG7 Energy Compact of the Republic of Lebanon United Nations · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Lebanon Renewable Energy and System Reinforcement Project World Bank · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Second National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2016-2020 Ministry of Energy and Water / Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Strategic Environmental Assessment of Lebanon’s Renewable Energy Sector - legal framework chapter Ministry of Environment · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026Official assessment documenting SEA Decree 8213/2012 and EIA Decree 8633/2012 and their application to energy plans and projects.
- National Litani River Authority - statutory objectives and mandate Litani River Authority · Publication date not stated · English · Accessed 16 August 2026