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Saudi Arabia To Shake Up Electricity Sector With SEC Reforms
...liquids in the utility sector last year. CAPACITY PUSH SEC’s generating capacity peaked at 56.6GW in 2017 and after a dip in 2018 and 2019 is expected to increase to around 56.5GW in the medium term. While peak demand has settled at just over 60GW since 2015 as a result of tariff re...
Volume: 63Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2020 -
Saudi Gas Set To Further Strengthen Domestic Powergen Role
...peline connection (see table). Wasit came online in 2016 and then hit full capacity in 2017. The amount of power generated by gas jumped 717 trillion Btu between 2015 and 2017 as a result, and a similar boost from Fadhili would technically be sufficient to erase crude and diesel burn in the eastern an...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
North Africa Follows UAE, Saudi In Slashing Solar Costs
...uld have cost $649/kW, while its $29.4bn under-development nuclear project with 4.8GW capacity will cost $6,125/kW (MEES, 15 December 2017). UAE/SAUDI SOLAR PV PROJECTS HAVE SET RECORD LOW ELECTRICITY PRICES (US¢/KWH)... ...WHILE NORTH AFRICAN PRICES ARE NOW PLAYING CATCH-UP (US¢/KW...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Saudi Generators Build Capacity Cushion Ahead Of SEC Split
....12GW in 2017 and 61.74GW for the 2018 summer peak. In addition to Saudi electricity demand appearing to have levelled off for now, the generating capacity cushion could prove vital to ensuring supply reliability as SEC – which is owned 74.3% by sovereign wealth fund PIF, 6.9% by state integrated oi...
Volume: 61Issue: 47Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2018 -
Pearl Gives KRG Khor Mor Gas Boost
...The Kurdistan Regional Government’s creative settlement with the Pearl Petroleum consortium in July 2017 is paying dividends (MEES, 13 July). Production capacity at the consortium’s Khor Mor gas field in the region’s southwest was this week boosted 30% from 305mn cfd to 400mn cfd through de...
Volume: 61Issue: 47Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2018 -
Algeria Eyes 2.4gw Power Capacity Boost By Mid-2018, But Money Is Tight
...appearance; the company’s third Algerian CCGT project, Bellara, is also apparently on hold. Korea’s Samsung C&T is developing two of the big CGGT plants. By the end of the second quarter 2017 the company estimated that it had reached 50% completion of the Naama project, for which the co...
Volume: 60Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2017 -
Morocco Awards Three PV Projects, As Mena Gets Serious About Solar
...ll as 80MW at Laayoune and 20MW at Boujdour in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. Construction will begin in Q1 2017 and take 12 months. Acwa says the Noor PV1 electricity price is US¢4.8/kWh. This lowest bid is significantly higher than the ¢2.99/kWh for the 800MW third phase of the 5GW solar pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Egypt Tying Up Gas-Fired Finance, Looks To Advance Renewables And Nuclear
...s-fired turbines will be installed in three 4.8GW combined cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) plants, at Beni Suef, Burullus and a planned new capital city 45km east of Cairo. These will be built by Egyptian firms Elsewedy Electric and Orascom Construction for start-up during 2017-20. Each plant will co...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
Egypt Plans Nuclear Tender, UAE Progresses First Reactor
...clear plants over 2017-20 is a key component of an “energy portfolio that guarantees security of supply and dependable electricity,” UAE Minister of Energy Suhail al-Mazrouei says. Speaking on 11 November at an Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) conference, Mr Mazru’i predicted UAE electricity de...
Volume: 56Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2013