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Egypt May Ax Coal Plans On Back Of Major Gas, Solar Expansion
...eliminary agreement. The latter is among projects earlier reported as likely to be postponed, along with gas-fired expansions at Damanhour and Mahmoudia (MEES, 16 August). Though final awards were only made last year they are the culmination of a now-outdated strategy set out in 2014 and 2015 as dw...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Algeria’s Renewables Plans Struggle To Advance
...en much better since, with a number of plants coming online. Although it has taken some time, of the big eight CCGT projects awarded in 2012 and 2014, at least two have started up (see map & table). The 1.016GW Ain Arnat CCGT plant in the northeastern Setif province first started up in open-cycle mo...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Abu Dhabi Completes 1.6GW Gas-Fired Plant
...d Construction and Hyundai Engineering, and Italy’s Ansaldo Energia (MEES, 11 July 2014). DASH FROM GAS The additional 1.24GW of combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) capacity will add up to 170mn cfd of fuel to Adwea’s gas requirement. The project is the last large gas-fired power plant in Abu Dh...
Volume: 60Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2017 -
Oman Power: Foot Off The Gas Despite Khazzan Progress
...readbare international project pipeline. When asked on the firm’s 1 November Q3 earnings call “Given the [cost] deflation you have seen, is it time to step up the FIDs [final investment decisions]?” CFO Brian Gilvary says “we rebuilt the company over 2011 to 2014 [with a massive sell-off of assets to fund ‘De...
Volume: 59Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2016 -
Algeria’s Peak Power Demand Soars, New Capacity Starting Up
...ALGERIA Algeria’s 2015 peak power demand was almost 1.5GW up on 2014. Algiers has an ambitious program to expand capacity. But, amid growing fuel shortages and a cash crunch, curbing subsidies is a better bet. Algeria’s Electricity Ministry says that the country’s electricity demand re...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
Turkey Backs Gas, Renewables; May Take Nuclear ‘In-House’
...4Q15. The Turkish Wind Energy Association says installed wind capacity amounted to 3.58GW at the end of September 2014. This was 926MW or almost 35% higher than at the end of August 2013. Wind capacity now accounts for more than 5% of Turkey’s power capacity. The association predicts Turkey’s wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal
...UAE RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) plans to invite bids for separate solar power and desalination plants worth a combined $450mn in a tender to be organized in 2014 by local private utility Utico. The solar plant will have 20MW capacity, wh...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
MENA Solar Power Progressing In Small Steps
...scheduled for completion by 2014. Masdar has also developed three CSP plants in Spain, one of 20mw capacity and two of 50mw. Morocco is an early pace-setter in MENA solar, having committed to build the first of a number of plants intended to provide 2.0gw of power by 2020. The Mo...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012