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Kuwait Seeks Chinese Help With Solar Expansion
...untry’s power generation , just 0.16TWh for 2024 (see chart 1). The park’s current facilities were commissioned in stages from 2017 to 2019 to serve as a test bed for deploying renewable energy technologies in Kuwait, with the government planning to expand Shagaya to 4.5GW through multiple phases (MEES, 28...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Power Surge: Saudi Arabia’s Electricity Demand Soars To New Heights
...vernment statistics, including strong gains of 7.3% growth in transportation and 7% in hospitality. Last year’s 5% rise in power consumption was the highest annual growth figure since 2017, while the surge in peak demand from 65.3GW to 70.6GW was the biggest annual increase since 2015 (see ch...
Volume: 67Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 -
Egypt Power Consumption Hits Record 167TWh For 2022
...modern CCGT capacity and the giant Zohr gas field in 2017-18 made such power shortages a thing of the past (MEES, 3 August 2018). However, today’s capacity surplus is less robust than it seems: an increased reliance on intermittent renewables generation, often located far from population centers, pr...
Volume: 66Issue: 12Published at Fri, 24 Mar 2023 -
Egypt Powergen Rebounds To Record For 2021 As Oil Burn Makes A Comeback
...lated effects coming on top of a long term downward trend from a 2016 peak after subsidies were phased out from 2017. As for the impact of Covid: 2020 household consumption actually was somewhat higher than 2019 as more people stayed at home, whilst for 2021 the main change was a higher summer peak, pe...
Volume: 65Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2022 -
Egypt Power: Plentiful Gas, Falling Demand Make Shortfalls A Distant Memory
...fective capacity with blackouts commonplace. Two key events have transformed Egypt’s power supply situation in recent years. The start up of the giant Zohr offshore gas field at the end of 2017 and its subsequent ramp-up made chronic gas shortages a thing of the past (MEES, 14 September 2018). And 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Egypt Gas Burn Falls Despite Powergen Record
...imarily the three giant CCGTs:: capacity rose from 46.03GW at the end of 2017 to 57.05GW at end-2019 (see chart 3). Egypt’s total installed capacity is now 85% higher than the record peak load of 30.8GW hit in August 2018. However, much of the existing capacity is in aging plants that have suffered un...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...ril being 100,000 b/d below March. They are going to match the lowest in 2017-18.” That low was 9.91mn b/d in December 2017, so Saudi Arabia may in fact be cutting significantly below 2017 levels. This would be a massive fall of around 500,000 b/d from January production of 10.29mn b/d (10...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Egypt’s Gas Balancing Act As Power Demand Eats Into Growing Supply
...it during 2017-20 represent the power sector’s biggest new gas requirement. Germany’s Siemens is providing turbines and generators for three 4.8GW plants: Egypt’s Orascom is building plants at Burullus and a proposed ‘new capacity city’ just east of Cairo, while local firm Elsewedy is building a pl...
Volume: 61Issue: 12Published at Fri, 23 Mar 2018 -
Jordan: China Cash Ties Up $2.1bn Oil Shale Funding
...ich Hydro, biogas 10 Planned: Enviromena/TSK (2017) Quweira Solar 10...
Volume: 60Issue: 12Published at Fri, 24 Mar 2017 -
Kuwait Boosts Gas-Fired Power Capacity, Prepares Further LNG Imports
...Spain’s TSK to build the 50MW Al-Shegaya solar plant. This will be Kuwait’s first utility-scale solar project – although two 10MW projects are expected to be completed in 2016 – and is due online by December 2017 (MEES, 18 September 2015). LNG BOOST Kuwait’s gas-fired power plants will in...
Volume: 59Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016 -
Egypt Announces $43bn Powergen Plans As Part Of Epic Development Program
...D) offshore project. This will involve the development of 5 tcf of gas and 55mn barrels of condensate in the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean blocks. BP says production from WND is due to begin in 2017, with gas output expected to reach 1.2bn cfd, and with all produced gas being fed into Eg...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Bahrain’s 1.5GW Plans
...BAHRAIN Bahrain plans to add 1.5GW of generating capacity by end- 2017 in a second phase expansion of the Al Dur power and desalination plant on Bahrain’s east coast. Minister of Energy ‘Abd al-Husain Ali Mirza says that with demand growing by 5-6%/year more electricity generating ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Turkey Sees Power Demand Doubling By 2023, Backs Nuclear And Coal
...e awarded for 2017 ownwards. Nuclear Progress Russia’s Rosatom will begin work in 2015 on the first of four 1.2GW nuclear plants at Akkuyu, near Mersin on Turkey’s southern coast. Start-up is scheduled for 2020. Meanwhile, Japan’s Mitsubishi and Itochu and France’s GDF Suez and Areva will st...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014