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Kuwait Powers Ahead With CCGT Plans After Projects Hiatus
...nder was issued in September, will help increase Kuwait’s installed capacity by 32% from 18.74GW to 24.79GW, while the two new IWPPs will raise desalination capacity by 48% to 4.07mn m3/d (see table). Meanwhile, peak load rose from 13.80 GW in 2017 to 14.07GW last year, so there was plenty of slack in th...
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019 -
Egypt Hopes To Kick-Start Wind Financing With Switch To BOO Contracts
...nistry’s feed-in-tariffs offer developers US¢4.60-11.48/kWh for electricity generated from wind projects. While tariffs for both wind and solar are quoted in the US currency, payments are to be made in Egyptian pounds, putting off some potential investors (MEES, 7 April 2017). For wind, payments would fall fr...
Volume: 61Issue: 19Published at Fri, 11 May 2018 -
UAE Finishes Building First Nuclear Plant, But Start-Up Delayed To 2018
...w test and commission the reactor, before handing it over to a joint venture of Enec and Kepco formed to operate the plant. Although the contract signed between Enec and Kepco in 2009 envisaged starting up one reactor each year over the period 2017-20, Enec now says the “timeline includes an ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2017 -
Egypt: Solar Ambitions Soar, But Like Icarus?
...cently NREA awarded Spain’s Gamesa a €220mn turnkey contract to build a 220MW wind farm at Gulf of El-Zayt on the western Red Sea coast. This too was first proposed in 2010, but is now due to start up in 2017 (MEES, 24 April). EGYPT’S RECENT RENEWABLES DEALS (GW) Co...
Volume: 58Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2015 -
Aramco Scales Back Giant Jazan Plans To 2.4GW
...’s lump sum turnkey contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning support. TR says the utilities and offsites will be operational in 2017. This represents a one-year delay from the original 2016 start-up schedule. The delay can be attributed to the ma...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
Oman Reviewing Electricity Policy, Targeting Efficiency
...expected to see tenders for a total 2.0-2.5gw of IPP capacity being launched by next year, with a view to start-up in 2017-18. ...
Volume: 56Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2013 -
Turkey Awards $22Bn Contract For Sinop Nuclear Plants
...it due to begin operating in 2010. Rosatom is expected to begin construction work for Akkuyu-1 in mid-2015, while civil works on Sinop-1 are slated to start in 2017 (MEES, 26 April). The Sinop contract was signed in Ankara by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Ja...
Volume: 56Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2013