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UAE, Egypt Lead Mena Renewables Expansion
...rdan took its total wind capacity to 374MW at the end of 2019 with completion of the 89MW Fujeij wind farm 150km south of Amman (MEES, 20 January 2017). EBRD’s $1.7bn investment in Jordan since 2012 means it can now generate 10-15% of electricity from locally-developed renewables capacity (MEES, 28 Fe...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Solar Drives Mena Renewables In 2017, But Region Remains Global Laggard
...Mena governments have been slow to adopt renewables, but economic diversification plans and competition for conventional generation fuels suggest growth may pick up. Mena region utilities added 1.64GW or 5.7% to their capacity to generate power from renewable sources in 2017. While this wa...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Jordan Pushes Ahead With Oil Shale-Fired Power Plant, Lining Up More Solar
...velopment: 957 2017: Enviromena/TSK Quweira Solar 103 2018:Sepco Sa...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Algiers Aims For The Sun; Is Its Head In The Clouds?
...ntracts, 55% of revenues from taxes on gas flaring and (as of the 2017 budget) 10% of revenues from VAT on energy-consuming goods and appliances. It is also seeking funding from overseas. On 6 April, Energy Minister Noureddine Boutarfa met in Algiers with Rémy Rioux head of France’s foreign aid de...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Foreign Firms Line Up For Algeria Renewables Work
...sin. Here “production start-up was achieved… at the end of the year [2016], with start-up of six wells and linkage to the existing treatment facilities of the MLE project. The development activities are expected to be completed during 2017,” Eni says in its 2016 Factbook, released last week. A pa...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Aramco Secures Jazan Feedstock; More Saudi Projects Planned
...16 Rawec Exp (Rawec) 0.16 5 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) 2.64 80 2017 PP13 (SE...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Gamesa On For Egypt Wind Farm
...EGYPT Gamesa On For Egypt Wind Farm Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has awarded a €220mn turnkey contract to Spain’s Gamesa for the 220MW Gulf of El Zayt wind farm on the western Red Sea coast. Gamesa says that the plant is expected to start up in 2H 2017. Gamesa wi...
Volume: 58Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2015 -
Saudi Direct Crude Burn Plan Can Only Work Short-Term, Says FGE
...e last of these plants is due online in 2017 (MEES, 4 April). For 2013 as a whole Saudi Arabia burnt 483,000 b/d of crude and 311,000 b/d of fuel oil. With an additional five heavy fuel oil-fired plants totaling 14GW (as well as the 17GW of gas-fired plant) due online by 2018, the official Saudi ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
Egypt Rejoins MENA Nuclear Pursuit, Iran Plans Two New Bushehr Plants
...ild four nuclear power plants worth $22bn at Sinop on the Black Sea coast, according to Japan’s Nikkei business daily. Work on the first of the plants is slated for 2017 with a view to 2023 start-up. Russia’s Rosatom is expected to start construction in mid-2015 of the first of four plants at...
Volume: 56Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2013