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Egypt Secures Saudi, UAE Funding For Power Expansion, Awards Wind Projects
...eoretically give Egypt access to the GCC power grid, but - like the GCC grid itself - progress has been slow (MEES, 28 November 2014). Projects being discussed in tandem with much-needed funding include three coal-fired plants with a combined capacity of 4.62GW at a cost of $4.64bn, for which Cairo has si...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Jordan: Wind Gathers Pace In Bid To Diversify
...2014. The wind farm incorporates 40 of fellow Spanish firm Gamesa’s 2MW turbines. The original plan was to install 33 turbines totaling 66MW, but the ministry expanded the scope. Now Daelim and Kosco have formed the Daehan Wind Power project company to build a 49.5MW wind farm at Tafila, 140km so...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
2.2GW Gas-Fired Plant For Northern Emirates
...x plants totaling 1.15GW in 2013. Now only three are operational: 387MW Nakhil in Ras al-Khaimah and 116MW Ajman and 200MW Al-Zouraa in Ajman. In 2014 Fewa imported 11.1TWh of electricity from Abu Dhabi’s Adewa. Imports exceeded 2GW at peak demand times. Hence building the proposed plant would po...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Oman Expanding Desalination, Prepares Power Shake-Up
...88GW in 2014 to 10.24GW in 2020, while combined capacity of its two main grids – the Main Interconnected System (MIS) and Salalah – is currently 7.91GW (MEES, 11 April 2014). Meanwhile, peak water demand is expected to rise from 934,000 cmd in 2014 to 1.34mn cmd in 2020, whereas current desalination ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Qatar Awards Desalination Project, Plans Strategic Storage
...ter project, at Umm Al Haul. This will have capacity to generate 2.4GW of electricity and desalinate 590,000 cmd of water and is scheduled for start-up in 2018 (MEES, 1 August 2014). Qatar’s power and water demand growth has averaged 10.3%/year in recent years. To maintain reliable water su...
Volume: 58Issue: 15Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015 -
Oman Peak Demand To Double By 2020, Gas Burning Up 50%
...ll see gas burning rise by a comparatively modest 50% from 7.4 bcm in 2014 to 11.1b cm in 2020. As long as the country’s key upcoming upstream gas project, BP’s $16bn, 10 bcm/year Khazzan tight gas development, comes onstream as planned in 2017-18, power generation’s share of Oman’s gas output wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Lebanon Starts Up Power Barge, Awards Contract For New Plants
...ectricity, respectively. Being built by Danish contractor Burmeister and Wain at an estimated cost of €270mn, they are scheduled to be handed over to EDL in 2014. Initially run on diesel fuel, they will be convertible to gas-fired operation when Lebanon has gas supply infrastructure working as planned. ...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013