Electrical Services in the Trucial States, Paperback Book, By: Ayesha Saeed Al-Qaidi

This book confirms the importance of electric energy and its role as a major driver of daily life that depends on it in all its details, and because its arrival in the Emirates region and the development of its services deserve documentation. The book issued by the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates monitors the development of these services, which began in 1933, when the first electric generator was used in the lounge of Sharjah Airport, followed by attempts to establish an electricity company in the Emirate of Dubai since the beginning of the fifties until the first civil power station was established in it in 1955, then the first public electricity company in it in 1959, then the Sharjah Electricity Company, then the Abu Dhabi Emirate Electricity Company, then the electricity stations in the rest of the other coastal emirates, while the book follows the development of electrical services until the establishment of the United Arab Emirates in 1971. The book documents important aspects of the general situation in the Trucial States; Whether the political situation in the region; Such as calling it the Trucial Coast, and the treaties concluded with the British authority to the Ban Treaty in 1892 and the resulting change in the British authority's policy towards the Trucial States.