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Acwa Power Secures 800MW Solar PV Projects In Morocco
...and CSP technologies in a ‘game-changing’ hybrid model (MEES, 23 June 2017). The 800MW project was awarded back in May 2019 to Abu Dhabi state renewables giant Masdar in partnership with France’s EDF Renewables and local firm Green of Africa (MEES, 31 May 2019). But over five years later, li...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Saudi Utility SEC Cuts Spending Plans As Power Demand Levels Off
...fline as more advanced facilities are developed. Total capacity available to supply the grid – including firms which generate electricity to supply their own operations and deliver any excess to the grid – peaked in 2017 at 79.1GW and declined to 75.1GW at end-1H 2019. 2018’s demand peak represents 82...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Power Capacity Tops 90GW As Planning Shifts To ‘Clean’ Energy
...amco completed cogeneration plants at two oil processing plants and a gas processing plant in 2016, while the first 660MW unit at SEC’s Jeddah South plant was online in May 2016 and the plant fully operational by the end of 2017. Rawec, utilities supplier to the Petro Rabigh refining and petrochemicals co...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018 -
Morocco Wind Farm Award
...the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). EBRD and Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur (BMCE) provided €126mn ($140.9mn) in equal tranches (MEES, 13 November 2015). Vestas says that delivery of the turbines is scheduled for the second quarter of 2017, with commissioning ex...
Volume: 59Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2016 -
Egypt Powers Ahead With Electricity Expansion
...ll cost €100mn ($110mn) to build and is scheduled for start-up in 2017. Edison, like all foreign oil and gas producers in Egypt, has suffered delayed payments in recent years. But the company says recent normalization of payments by EGAS has persuaded it to start building a third production pl...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2015 -
Israel Closes $1bn Solar Financing
...e 121MW CSP project last year (MEES, 18 July 2014). Megalim laid the cornerstone for the 121MW project in June, with a view to connecting to the Israeli grid in 2017. The partners expect the plant to deliver 320GWh of electricity to the grid annually. The plant will comprise a 240m high solar to...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2015 -
Dubai To Spend $15Bn On 20% Capacity Hike By 2021
...ke 51%, with the project company holding 49%. Hassyan-1 comprises two 600MW coal-fired plants due online in 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, DEWA has started work on a 600MW expansion of M Station, for start-up in 2018, and aims to start up a 100MW solar plant in 2017 (MEES, 25 October 2013). Mr Tayir es...
Volume: 57Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Algeria Taps GE For 240MW Of Mobile Power
...09GW to 14.95GW (MEES, 27 June). GE says the Algerian government is “aggressively investing in the energy sector to boost power generating capacity” and estimates that electricity demand is growing by an average 14% a year, to reach 24GW by 2017. GE is not only a major supplier of turbines and ge...
Volume: 57Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014