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Iraq Turns To Turkey To Ease Electricity Shortages
...stem operator TEİAŞ continues to list allocated capacity at up to 300MW out to December 2025. There is also a second line linking Turkey’s Silopi to Kurdistan’s Zakho, but this has not been used since 2011, and attempts to restart the line in 2021 fell apart due to disagreements with Turkish energy tr...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...eful economic predicament. After all, the deal, which amounts to $500mn a year, fails to even replace the $5bn aid that Jordan received from 2012-2017. Amid large-scale Arab Spring protests in 2011, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar provided Jordan with $5bn (including $2bn from Riyadh alone) in...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Renewables: Turkey, UAE Make Progress But MENA Investment Lags
...e record level in 2011. Of this investment only $9bn was in the Middle East and Africa, and this includes $4.9bn from South Africa alone – less than $4bn, ie well under 2% of the global total, was in MENA (see chart). New Capacity Turkey added 112MW of geothermal generating capacity in 2013, ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Cyprus Lays Out Renewables Plans
...timism is not shared by the Cyprus Green Party which predicts the government could still fall short of its 13% target if more is not done on the renewables front. The Greens argue that following the 2011 Mari Naval Base munitions explosion, which took out much of the island’s main power plant at ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Kuwait Ponders Long-Term Power Fuel Supply Options: MEES Analysis
...rrently has 14.56gw of power generation capacity. It has no major medium-term plans for renewable energy, and the amir has cancelled tentative plans to build nuclear plants, following Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima disaster. The power plant slated to next come onstream is al-Zour, which has been th...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
MENA Renewables Sector To Continue ‘Massive’ Growth, Says Irena
...newables Report says regional investment topped $2.9bn in 2012, up 40% from 2011. “With over 100 projects under development,” said Irena, “the region could see a 450% increase in non-hydro renewable energy generating capacity in the next few years.” MENA governments have announced additional non-hydro re...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
Algeria In $96Bn Facilities Spend
...port. The company invested AD233.2bn ($3.07bn) in 2012, up 8.3% on 2011. Sonelgaz generated a total 54.09 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2012, said APS, up 10.7% on 2011. Sonelgaz says Algeria’s total generating capacity rose to 12.977gw by end-2012 from 11.392gw at end-2011. The company no...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013