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Algeria Launches 1GW Solar PV Tender
...hers, these projects are massively delayed. The contractor for Naama, Korea’s Samsung C&T is also working on the 1.45GW Mostaganem CCGT which has now been further pushed back to 2025. When the plant was awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017. Spanish contractor Duro Felguera’s 1.26GW Dj...
Volume: 65Issue: 01Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022 -
Saudi Fuel Price Hikes Hit Generators But Make Gas Exploration More Economic
...om consumers in 2014, more than 10% below the average generating cost of SR0.154/kWh. The impact of heavily subsidized electricity on SEC’s earnings has led government to provide what ECRA describes as “soft loans and government grants” to help balance its books. However, SEC’s growing need to ad...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Oman Budget Reforms May Ease Pressure On Gas-Fired Power Plans
...neration plans coordinated by state utility OPWP add to the burden, taking powergen gas demand from 7.1bcm in 2014 to 9.5 bcm in 2021. GAS PRESSURE Competition for gas from power generation, industry and enhanced oil recovery means that Oman’s LNG exports are in decline, falling 11% in 2014 and yet fu...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
MENA Power Survey: Generators Seek Fuel Diversity; Capacity Up 3.4% To 370GW
...REGIONAL MENA Power Survey: Generators Seek Fuel Diversity; Capacity Up 3.4% To 370GW Regional electricity generators raised total capacity by 3.84% to 372.1GW in 2014. GCC countries led the expansion through an increase of almost 4.5% over 2013, equivalent to 5.45GW of new capacity (se...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
MENA Power Survey - Regional Capacity Rises 4.4% to 350GW In 2013
...th unreliable supplies. AES Jordan and Japan’s Mitsui contracted Finland’s Wärtsilä to build a 240MW tri-fuel plant near ‘Amman, for start-up by July 2014. This will burn HFO, distillates or gas – a response to the all but drying up of gas flows from Egypt (MEES, 11 January 2013). Jordan is also de...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014 -
MENA Power Generators Pushed Diversity In 2012
...E’s sourcing of fuel and technology from a number of countries with uranium resources and nuclear technology (MEES, 21 December 2012). Delivery of fuel will begin in 2014-15 for the first of four 1.4gw to be built at Barakah by Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and due on-line during 2017-20. La...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Saudi Arabia Tackles Water Demand Jump
...ants. King ‘Abd al-Aziz Center for Science and Technology has helped developed a 30,000 cmd plant at al-Khafji, which will start up in 2014. Saudi Arabia is developing a plan where renewables will receive subsidies to make them competitive in power generation – many of the desalination plants’ power ge...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013