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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 -
Abu Dhabi’s Ewec Eyes New Era Of Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Power
...3Q 2026. Ewec is also tendering for the 273,000 m³/d Saadiyat Island RO plant, which it hopes to bring online in 2027. 1: ABU DHABI’S EWEC GAS FEEDSTOCK REQUIREMENTS FALL 30% FROM THEIR 2017 PEAK DESPITE OVERALL GENERATION SOARING (TWh) 2: ABU DHABI ‘CLEAN’ POWER GENERATION (TWh): OUTPUT HA...
Volume: 68Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2025 -
Neom’s Sustainable Power & Water Plans: Enowa CEO Speaks With MEES
...wn with MEES to discuss the project. The region of Neom is one of the most prominent symbols of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. First announced by Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman in 2017 as “the land of the future, where great minds and talents can create ground-breaking ideas and think outside the bo...
Volume: 67Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2024 -
Anbar Power Plants To Build Case For Akkas Gas?
...lamic State terrorist group and was only re-captured in 2017 by government forces. But the price was the extensive destruction of the facility. The Ministry awarded another $82mn for reconstruction work which has been led by a local Iraqi contractor since at least 2020. The plant’s first 125MW unit wa...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Jordan Moves Towards Electricity Hub Role With Saudi, Iraq Deals
...ans to also integrate with Iraq and potentially Syria in the future. Jordan’s transmission grid is already integrated with Egypt and the West Bank. No timeframe for the work has been provided and the idea of such a connection is longstanding. A similar MoU was signed in 2017, after Jordan’s el...
Volume: 63Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2020 -
Barakah 1 Reactor Connected To UAE Grid
...it 1 operators, preventing FANR from awarding an operating license to Nawah, which saw Barakah 1 start-up delayed from 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017). Enec recently announced the completion of construction of Barakah’s Unit 2 and says that operational readiness preparations are now under way by Nawah. Me...
Volume: 63Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2020 -
Abu Dhabi’s First Barakah Reactor Start-Up Points To 2024 Full Capacity
...ec’s control. When Enec began building the 1.4GW first unit in July 2012, Enec and Korean construction contractor Kepco envisaged the four units starting up at one-year intervals over the 2017-20 period. However, a scandal in Korea over fake safety certificates for some nuclear plant components ca...
Volume: 63Issue: 33Published at Fri, 14 Aug 2020 -
Bahrain’s Oil Sector Optimism Spreads To Powergen
...ve existing grid-linked power plants delivered 17.8TWh of electricity in 2018. Additions from the Alba power plants and the GGC grid took total electricity delivered to the grid to 18.0TWh. Bahrain’s peak load fell slightly to 3.44GW in 2018 from a record 3.57GW in 2017, although the trend in recent ye...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Egypt Solar Soars Thanks To Booming Benban Output
...lar park is a major contributor, along with three giant combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants with a combined capacity of 14.4GW developed by state utility EEHC and brought online in 2017-18, in ensuring that Egypt’s installed generating capacity is more than sufficient to meet anticipated peak el...
Volume: 62Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2019 -
Egypt: Are Power Shortages History?
...22 (MEES, 24 May). Cairo plans to spend just E£4bn ($229mn) on electricity subsidies in the current financial year, down from an estimated E£16bn ($900mn) in 2017-18. Electricity price increases have led to a 3-4% fall in consumption, local media outlet Amwal Al-Ghad reported on 7 August, citing el...
Volume: 62Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2019 -
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 -
Oman Cuts Power Growth Forecast, Eyes Lower Gas Burn
...r powergen and instead views incremental gas volumes as a source of additional export revenues. GAS BILL While the reduction in gas burning would be expected to reduce OPWP’s gas bill, it is not clear whether the introduction of time-of-use tariffs for electricity consumers in 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2019 -
Egypt’s Gas Surge Enables Planning Beyond Powergen Needs
...luable liquid fuels from the power mix. EEHC burned a record 8.84mn tons (161,000 b/d) of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in financial year 2015-16. But this fell to 7.15mn t (130,000 b/d) for 2016-17 as gas burning in power plants soared to 3.27bn cfd. For 2017-18 gas burning rose again to 3.60bn cfd for 2017...
Volume: 61Issue: 35Published at Fri, 31 Aug 2018 -
Gulf Crude Burn Down Sharply In 2018, But Fuel Oil Is The Key Replacement Fuel
...TA FOR 1H18. 1H18 REGIONAL TOTALS AND FULL YEAR FORECASTS PRESUME VOLUMES LEVEL WITH 2017. **PRESUMES ALL FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION IS IN POWER PLANTS. EXCLUDES DIESEL. SOURCE: JODI, MEES ESTIMATES & CALCULATIONS....
Volume: 61Issue: 34Published at Fri, 24 Aug 2018 -
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 -
Egypt’s New CCGTs Take Pressure Off Power Generators
...ypt’s installed generating capacity close to 50GW (see table). This is two-thirds higher than 2017’s record peak power load, with demand topping 30GW for the first time last July. With such a comfortable excess, EEHC can now afford to shut down some older and more inefficient power plants, at least fo...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Saudi Electricity Taps $1.75bn Loan For Capacity Expansion
...ternational finance market in 2017. Last year saw the company raise $5.1bn in three deals, an annual record if the 2014 finance ministry loan is excluded (see chart). SEC says the latest agreement is for a five-year ‘bullet’ repayment loan. Bullet loans require the entirety of the loan amount to be repaid at ma...
Volume: 60Issue: 34Published at Fri, 25 Aug 2017 -
Gulf Crude Burn Falling In 2017, But By Less Than The Rise In Fuel Oil Use
...ntinuing to rise, they have a long way to go to achieve this. Saudi Arabia burnt 424,000 b/d of crude in its power plants in the first half of 2017, down 50,000 b/d on the same period a year earlier, though the June figure of 680,000 b/d was just 24,000 b/d below year-ago levels, cutting into the crude av...
Volume: 60Issue: 33Published at Fri, 18 Aug 2017 -
Benban Solar Plan: Egypt PV Gets $635mn World Bank Cash
...e not finalized. The EBRD was hoping to “start construction before the end of 2017” on the 16 projects it is financing. The IFC expects the projects it will support to sign power purchase agreements in the third quarter of 2017. A number of the larger projects aim to begin construction in the fourth qu...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Dubai Plans Gas-Fired Expansion As UAE Pursues Powergen Diversity
...ec recently performed structural integrity tests on Barakah-1, which will be the first of the reactors to be brought online. Enec originally intended Barakah-1 to start up in 2017, but this target has slipped. The agency now says the four plants are scheduled to be fully operational in 2020. Enec sa...
Volume: 59Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2016