1. Oman To Add 4.8GW To Grid By 2022 As Electricity Demand Forecast To Rise 74%

    ...ports – although trading is possible by 2022. OPWP joined the GCCIA in December 2014 and envisages “tangible benefits to Oman both for planning and operations.” The company hopes to pilot electricity trading with other GCC states this year and to begin spot market trading in the MIS system in 20...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2016
  2. Baghdad And Kurds Choose Different Power Paths

    ...rbine 292 1x292MW Q1 2014 Delayed from Sep 2013 Salah Al-Din   2,274       Salah Al-Di...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013
  3. IDA: New Desalination Technologies Need Time

    ...e pilot program in early 2014.   “The emphasis in the pilot program is not on the energy source but on new desalination technologies,” says Dr Sommariva. “The breakthrough technologies will be coupled to an energy source later. We will work with the new desalination technologies to give the lo...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013
  4. Lebanon Struggles To Plug Power Shortage

    ...rmeister & Wain is currently undertaking a €270mn contract to add 194mw of generating capacity at the Zouk power plant and 78mw at Jiyyeh, both near Beirut. They are scheduled to be handed over to EDL in 2014, running initially on diesel and converting later to gas-fired operation when planned gas in...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 29
    Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013