Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 2

11-Jan-2010

SAUDI ARABIA

ABB Wins Substation Contract For First Saudi IPP

Zurich-based power and automation group ABB has won a $48mn contract from Chinas SEPCO II Electric Power Construction Corporation to deliver a substation for the first independent power plant (IPP) in Saudi Arabia. ABB will design, supply, install and commission the 280kv substation, which will transmit electric power from the 1.2gw Rabigh power plant some 150km north of Jiddah, and...