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Egypt Nuclear Plans Near Go-Ahead, Saudi Looks To Standardize Plant Design
...erating: Iran Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
Oil-Poor Arab States Get Multilateral Finance Boost For Renewables
...ectricity from renewables. EBRD and IFC began investing in energy projects in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia as part of the IMF’s ‘Arab Countries in Transition Program’ which followed the 2011 ‘Arab Spring.’ This targeted these four countries plus Yemen and Libya (MEES, 24 October 2014). At the re...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Egypt Inaugurates 200mw Gebel El Zeit Wind Farm
...vestment Bank provided a further €50mn and the European Commission €30mn. The project was slowed by the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ uprising and subsequent political turbulence, a Ministry of Electricity and Energy official told reporters. Project go-ahead was given in late 2008 and the financing deal was co...
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015 -
SEC Awards Revised Rabigh-2 IPP Project
...rayyah was originally conceived as a 1.8GW plant, but its capacity was hiked due to cost savings on tariffs (MEES, 26 September 2011). The 1.73GW Riyadh PP11 project, led by France’s GDF Suez, reached full capacity in early 2013, having begun early power generation of 600MW in June 2012 (MEES, 19 April). Ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
UAE Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia
...dertake the study failed to “submit its report on time.” Worldwide uranium production was estimated at 54,610 tons in 2011, while proven global uranium resources amounted to 5.33mn tons at end-2011. Meanwhile, Iran is the only country in the region to have built a commercial-sc...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Qatar Launches Solar Program To Conserve North Field
...lar plants, as its much-vaunted Masdar clean energy initiative stalls. Doha wants to conserve its gas reserves in the North Field, which faces complex challenges, including pressure drops (MEES, 12 December 2011). Qatar is unlikely to end the moratorium on further development when the study in...
Volume: 55Issue: 50Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2012