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Algeria’s Gas Burn Surges Amid Record Power Demand
...ly 2017. Gas accounts for about 99% of Algeria’s power generation capacity, so any power demand increase directly translates into a rise in gas consumption. But a surge in sales gas output this year on the back of a slew of new project start-ups (MEES, 21 May) means any additional domestic demand ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Abu Dhabi Eyes Innovative Approach To Energy Transition
...plying total nationwide capacity of 93GW (MEES, 13 January 2017). This is around three times current capacity, hardly boosting confidence in the efforts to improve consumption efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint. These figures imply thermal (mainly gas) capacity rising from 28GW to 35GW by 2050, “cl...
Volume: 62Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019 -
Acwa Power: Solar Record-Setter, But Any Coal’s A Goal
...el oil (HFO) and gas. Even its 15 projects under construction include a coal-fired plant and one burning HFO. Acwa had equity in assets with a combined capacity to generate 22.6GW of electricity and desalinate 2.7mn m³/d of water as of the end of 2017, mainly in Saudi Arabia but also in Oman, UA...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018 -
Dubai Breaks Solar Capacity, Power Pricing Records With CSP Project
...70 Current Capacity 28.83 Projects Awarded: 13.57 Adwea (2017) Al-Mirfa CCGT (Ga...
Volume: 60Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2017 -
Abu Dhabi Looks To Break Dubai’s Solar Cost Record
...wea aims to sign a power purchase agreement with the winning consortium in the first quarter of 2017. While Adwea did not list the bidders, reports say Japan’s Marubeni and China’s Jinko Solar submitted the lowest bid. Although Adwea was the first Middle Eastern utility to develop a large-scale so...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
Morocco Wind Bids In
...% of existing capacity, which has been increased recently by UAE firm TAQA’s completion of a 700MW extension at the Jorf Lasfar plant. Other coal projects are a 318MW plant at Jerada, due online in 2016 and a 1.32GW plant at Safi, expected to be completed in 2017. Morocco 850mw Wind Bi...
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
UAE Secures $2Bn Ex-Im Bank Loan To Buy US Nuclear Equipment
...ese are due to come on-line from 2017. By David Knott The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced on 7 September the authorization of a $2bn direct loan to the UAE’s Barakah One Company to underwrite the export of American equipment and services for th...
Volume: 55Issue: 38Published at Fri, 14 Sep 2012