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Powering The UAE’s Northern Emirates
...ound 14TWh over 2017-2020, it began climbing sharply in 2021 and last year’s 7% increase pushed it to a record 17.99TWh. At the same time, peak demand has also been on a sharp upwards trend, hitting 3.5GW in 2023 (see chart 2). As with elsewhere in the Gulf, demand is highly seasonal: the record of 3....
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Libya Fights To Keep The Lights On
...st has been seven years in the making. Turkish contractor Enka and turbine provider Siemens have been reluctant to return since three Turkish and one South African worker were kidnapped in Ubari two years ago (MEES, 24 November 2017). But Gecol finally appears ready to roll the first unit out ov...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Algeria Makes Electricity Gains, But Struggles To Power The Future
...ility Sonelgaz says that the country’s generators delivered a total 69.79TWh of electricity to the grid in 2017, an increase of 7% on 2016. But the firm has failed to lift a number of big CCGT projects off the ground, owing largely to a lack of foreign funds. Of the total generated electricity last ye...
Volume: 61Issue: 25Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018 -
Saudi Grid Has 74.3GW Generating Capacity Available, Says SEC
...so been working on improving the operating efficiency of its power plants. Average thermal efficiency in SEC power plants was 35.6% in Q1 2017, the company says, compared with 34.5% in the same quarter of 2016. The utility claims that efficiency improvements in its oil-fired power plants saved th...
Volume: 60Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2017 -
Kuwait To Hike Gas-Fired Capacity After Bagging More LNG
...finery (MEES, 16 October 2015). KUWAIT'S POWER & WATER PROJECTS Plant Fuel GW '000 m/d Al-Zour North 1 (2016) Gas 1.5 486 Al-Shegaya (2017) Solar 0.05 - Al-Zour No...
Volume: 59Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2016 -
Egypt Completes Smaller Power Plants Amid Major Capacity Hike
...ntract will be €1.6bn, the company adds. Elsewedy, whose Beni Suef project is also valued at €2bn, says its share of the deal will be worth €785mn. The company says the plant will begin delivering electricity by the summer of 2017, with project completion expected within 38 months of financial cl...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Egypt’s Taqa Plans To Double Capacity To Help Cairo Bridge Power Shortage
...oject is part of the government’s plans to supply 20% of power from new and renewable sources by 2020. Cairo plans to increase PV and wind capacity to 4.3GW by 2017. The ministry of electricity has approved the provision of land, and Taqa has been cleared to carry out preliminary studies and outline th...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Oman Seeks 2.6GW Capacity For MIS Grid
...rms under independent power producer (IPP) agreements. The deadline for RFQ submissions is 3 August. OPWP says that, out of the 2.6GW of capacity sought, 740MW is to be operational for summer 2017 and the remaining 1.86GW for summer 2018. OPWP’s current seven-year plan says that “following an ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014