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IEA Backs Mena Renewable Surge After Late Start
...nstruction 600MW Al Shuaibah plant holding the record of just US¢1.04/kWh since 2021 (MEES, 16 April 2021). After previous false starts, the launch of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) with its first tender in 2017 laid the foundations for the kingdom’s ambitious solar and wind po...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
Dubai Solar Capacity Tops 1GW
...8MW. This too is delayed, missing a first half 2019 start-up target (MEES, 2 June 2017). Germany’s Siemens and Egypt’s Elsewedy meanwhile were awarded a contract to build the 815MW fourth phase of the H-Station plant at Al Aweer, east of Dubai city, but this too has missed its intended in March-Ap...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
Oman’s 2019 Power Start-Ups Are Last Gas Burners In Project Pipeline
...-field operations across the huge Block 6 (MEES, 2 November 2018); and rural electricity provider Raeco’s 50MW wind farm being built at Harweel in the Dhofar region (MEES, 3 February 2017). OPWP has proposed a 1.5GW coal-fired power plant at Duqm on the Arabian Sea coast, but this project may be...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
UAE Delays, Jordan Rethink Blur Mena Nuclear Vision
...nstruction nuclear reactors, has announced that fuel rods for the first of the plants will be loaded into the reactor in early 2020. This means that the first electricity from the Barakah-1 unit will not hit the grid until later in 2020 at the earliest – over three years after the May 2017 announcement of...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Dubai Claims New Solar Pricing Record, This Time For CSP
...fferent assumptions in calculating LCOEs, which can skew cost estimates. A March 2017 study by Amro Elshurafa, senior research associate at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (Kapsarc), says that when Dewa announced in early 2015 that it would buy electricity from Saudi fi...
Volume: 60Issue: 23Published at Fri, 09 Jun 2017 -
Egypt Awards Siemens €8bn, 16.4GW Powergen Deal
...ll also build a rotor blade manufacturing plant at Ain Sukhna, for start-up in the second half of 2017. Siemens says the orders expand on the memorandums of understanding (MOUs) announced at the Egypt Economic Development Conference in Sharm El Sheikh in March. The original MOUs were for 6.4GW of ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015