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Kuwait Seeks To Reboot Stalled Power Projects
...at instance bidders were assessed throughout late-2016 and early 2017, only for the whole process to fall apart in mid-2017 after PPP laws were amended. By mid-2019, KAPP and the Ministry had re-configured the main planned feedstock for Khairan from very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) to natural ga...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024 -
Power Generation Set To Drive Middle East Oil Use Gains
...dustrial activity typically rises with economic activity. Consumption averaged 572,000 b/d for the first 11 months of 2022, up 70,000 b/d year-on-year. This is the highest figure since 2017, when the government implemented subsidy reforms to curb consumption and effectively pushed it out from power pl...
Volume: 66Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2023 -
Algeria Launches 1GW Solar PV Tender
...hers, these projects are massively delayed. The contractor for Naama, Korea’s Samsung C&T is also working on the 1.45GW Mostaganem CCGT which has now been further pushed back to 2025. When the plant was awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017. Spanish contractor Duro Felguera’s 1.26GW Dj...
Volume: 65Issue: 01Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022 -
Algeria’s Power Output Falls For First Time On Record In 2020
...20, but was also the second highest on record ahead of 2017’s 14.45GW (see chart 2). The good news is that peak demand remains well below Algeria’s installed capacity, which rose by 900MW to 22.9GW last year. That buffer isn’t as large as it looks, however. In reality, Algeria’s ‘available ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2021 -
Qatar Awards First Utility-Scale Solar Project
...0MW (MEES, 29 September 2017), then 700MW (MEES, 10 January), before Doha settled on its current configuration. Qatar did not initially reveal a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for Al Kharsaah – a value thought not to reflect true solar project costs (MEES, 22 November 2019) – saying instead the pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Mena Cross-Border Power Grid Links: More Theory Than Practice
...ectricity between GCC countries as well as enabling alternative supplies to reduce power outages. But volumes remain puny. GCC countries see use of the grid as an emergency backstop more than a routine occurrence: non-emergency transfers only accounted for more than 50% of transfers for the first time in 2017...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Egypt Tests Sudan Grid Link As Saudi Plans Stall
...velopment as part of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s ‘Neom’ project (MEES, 27 October 2017). Saudi Arabia was expected to launch an adjusted tender for its side of the link last year, according to local media reports in March 2019, but this has not yet occurred. Of Egypt’s current cross-border li...
Volume: 63Issue: 04Published at Fri, 24 Jan 2020 -
Ground-Breaking Mena Power Plants Due Online In 2020
...id as well as to power the mining and processing operations. Estonia’s Eesti Energia is lead developer, but sold part of its stake to China’s coal power plant operator Yudean to secure Chinese financial backing (MEES, 28 April 2017). Much of Kuwait’s recent power capacity expansion has been ad...
Volume: 63Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2020 -
Mena Nuclear Power Plans Lose Their Glow
...Ruwais, is not expected before the end of 2019. “Nuclear is coming, but there will be a delay,” he announced earlier this month. State nuclear firm Enec originally intended to bring the four 1.4GW Barakah reactors online at yearly intervals over 2017-20. But state nuclear regulator FANR will no...
Volume: 62Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2019 -
Tunisia: 120MW Wind awards
...rm Steg, at a price of TD0.10-0.135/kWh ($0.034-0.046/KWh) for 20-years. The 130MW tender, initially launched in May 2017, went through a number of deadline extensions, finally ending in December 2018. 10MW of capacity reserves for smaller projects received no bids. Delays are becoming the no...
Volume: 62Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2019 -
Saudi Firm Acwa Power Eyes Funding Options For Bumper Projects Portfolio
...ices have subsequently (and quietly) been renegotiated upwards. For concentrated solar power (CSP) the world record low award was Acwa’s offer to supply power for just US¢7.30/kWh from the 700MW fourth phase of Dubai’s MBR solar park at Seih al-Dalal 50km south of Dubai city (MEES, 22 September 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Saudi Power Project Schedules Slide,But Outlook Stable
...ES, 5 October 2018). Saudi Arabia’s third largest power plant under development, oil-fired 3.1GW Yanbu 3, is undergoing tests, despite state-owned power and desalination plant operator SWCC in January 2017 canceling the $1.5bn EPC contract that was awarded to Korea’s Samsung and partners China’s Se...
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019 -
Saudi Awards Key Desalination Plant
...wa 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, UAE, Jordan and Morocco as well as outside the Mena region (MEES, 21 September 2018)....
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019 -
Saudi Electricity Borrows $2.6bn To Fund Capital Projects As Debts Soar
...tibank of the US; Japan’s Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking; First Abu Dhabi Bank; France’s Natixis; and the UK’s Standard Chartered and HSBC. SEC’s growing debts may impact Riyadh’s long-planned privatization of the company (MEES, 22 December 2017) as might the focus of...
Volume: 61Issue: 04Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2018 -
Israel-Jordan Spat Threatens Already Precarious Cooperation
...Israel’s capital on 6 December, relations between Jordan and Israel took yet another hit after an already troubling 2017. Mr Trump’s pronouncement could also prove to be the final nail in the coffin of the already comatose Israel-Palestine “peace process.” Jordan’s King Abdullah immediately de...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Saudi Shortlists Two In Solar Tender – But Not The Cheapest
...wer at US¢2.34/kWh and US¢2.66/kWh respectively – were the second and third lowest of eight bids announced by Repdo in October. A consortium of UAE state firm Masdar and France’s EDF offered US¢1.79/kWh (MEES, 6 October 2017). Repdo did not explain its decision to reject the Masdar/EDF bid, saying on...
Volume: 61Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2018 -
Jordan Lines Up More EBRD Cash For Renewables Projects
...ectricity grid operator Nepco. Acwa says the project will deliver electricity at JD0.042/kWh (US¢5.92/kWh), a record low for Jordan but much higher than recent bids for bigger projects in the Gulf region which bring economies of scale (MEES, 6 October 2017). Acwa Power managing director Thamir al-Sh...
Volume: 61Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2018 -
Saudi Ups Power Profits Ahead Of Planned Sell-Off
...pply grids (MEES, 4 March 2016). FURTHER HIKES Meanwhile, further increases to Saudi electricity tariffs are likely. Following the publication of the 2017 annual budget, Mr Falih said that during 2017-20 the government will gradually link all domestic energy prices to a benchmark that has yet to...
Volume: 60Issue: 04Published at Fri, 27 Jan 2017 -
Jordan Keeps Up Renewables Momentum With Solar Award & New Tender
...16 176 Total End-2016 4,524 Planned: TSK/ Enviromena (2017) Quweira So...
Volume: 60Issue: 03Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2017 -
UAE Sets Out Nationwide Power Strategy, Targets 50% ‘Clean Energy’ By 2050
...16) Al-Mirfa CCGT (Gas) 1.60 Dewa (2017) Solar Park 2 (PV) 0.20 Sewa (2017) Hamriyah Ex...
Volume: 60Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2017