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Iraq Turns To Turkey To Ease Electricity Shortages
...DED THEIR CONTRACTS IN 2017 SOURCE: IRAQ'S MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY, MEES. ...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Powering The UAE’s Northern Emirates
...ound 14TWh over 2017-2020, it began climbing sharply in 2021 and last year’s 7% increase pushed it to a record 17.99TWh. At the same time, peak demand has also been on a sharp upwards trend, hitting 3.5GW in 2023 (see chart 2). As with elsewhere in the Gulf, demand is highly seasonal: the record of 3....
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
IEA Backs Mena Renewable Surge After Late Start
...nstruction 600MW Al Shuaibah plant holding the record of just US¢1.04/kWh since 2021 (MEES, 16 April 2021). After previous false starts, the launch of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) with its first tender in 2017 laid the foundations for the kingdom’s ambitious solar and wind po...
Volume: 67Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2024 -
Saudi Arabia Burning Record Oil Volumes
...ar. Crude oil burn is up year-on-year, but is broadly within historical norms. At 407,000 b/d in April, it was up by 52,000 b/d year-on-year to the highest April figure since 2017. For fuel oil meanwhile, consumption of 637,000 b/d was up nearly 100,000 b/d from 2020, to by far the biggest April fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Dubai Solar Capacity Tops 1GW
...8MW. This too is delayed, missing a first half 2019 start-up target (MEES, 2 June 2017). Germany’s Siemens and Egypt’s Elsewedy meanwhile were awarded a contract to build the 815MW fourth phase of the H-Station plant at Al Aweer, east of Dubai city, but this too has missed its intended in March-Ap...
Volume: 63Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2020 -
GCC Grid: Could An Iraq Link Give It Relevance?
...ates all have reliable domestic grids. In a bid to gain relevance the GCCIA is looking outside of the six-country grouping. Certainly the GCCIA needs to be rejuvenated somehow. Total electricity transfers last year amounted to just 1.24TWh, down sharply from 2017’s record 1.63TWh. The key reason fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019 -
Libya Fights To Keep The Lights On
...st has been seven years in the making. Turkish contractor Enka and turbine provider Siemens have been reluctant to return since three Turkish and one South African worker were kidnapped in Ubari two years ago (MEES, 24 November 2017). But Gecol finally appears ready to roll the first unit out ov...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Dubai Looks To Clean Up Powergen Act With 2050 Plan
...r later release to turbines (MEES, 16 June 2017). The flagship project in Dewa’s solar program is the 5GW MBR Solar Park under development 50km south of Dubai city at Seih al Dalal. In March Dewa invited developers to submit qualification documents for an independent power producer (IPP) project fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Oman’s 2019 Power Start-Ups Are Last Gas Burners In Project Pipeline
...-field operations across the huge Block 6 (MEES, 2 November 2018); and rural electricity provider Raeco’s 50MW wind farm being built at Harweel in the Dhofar region (MEES, 3 February 2017). OPWP has proposed a 1.5GW coal-fired power plant at Duqm on the Arabian Sea coast, but this project may be...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Egypt Eyes Coal-Fired Power To Reduce Gas Reliance
...$6.1bn per GW of capacity, compared with $4.4bn or $730mn/GW for the coal-fired plant, suggesting that prestige and not just fuel diversity is a factor in government’s power plan (MEES, 15 December 2017). GAZ GUZZLERS Despite the move to broaden its powergen fuel options, gas-fired capacity co...
Volume: 61Issue: 26Published at Fri, 29 Jun 2018 -
Algeria Makes Electricity Gains, But Struggles To Power The Future
...ility Sonelgaz says that the country’s generators delivered a total 69.79TWh of electricity to the grid in 2017, an increase of 7% on 2016. But the firm has failed to lift a number of big CCGT projects off the ground, owing largely to a lack of foreign funds. Of the total generated electricity last ye...
Volume: 61Issue: 25Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018 -
Mena Countries Eye Oil, Gas Savings From Renewables Plans
...ficient CCGT plants) or 78,000 b/d of liquid fuel (see table). This is less than 10% of the oil burnt by Saudi Arabia alone (974,000 b/d for 2017: 458,000 b/d crude and 465,000 b/d fuel oil). Only for Morocco, and to a lesser extent Jordan and Tunisia (MEES, 1 June), have new renewables significantly de...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Egypt: Power Price Hike, Or Back To The Future?
...nancial year. But it saw spending on power subsidies soar to hit E£64bn for 2016-17. The 2017-18 budget estimated a fall to E£28.6bn (MEES, 25 May). The plan was that electricity subsidies would have been completely phased in the upcoming financial year. But, wary of public opinion, President Sisi re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...cent recovery in oil prices, the GCC states are in a better position to fulfill their latest promises and disburse the pledged aid promptly to cash-strapped Jordan, but the aid still won’t even meet the gap left between 2017 and 2018 after the 2011 GCC package expired. PLAYING HA...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
UAE Delays, Jordan Rethink Blur Mena Nuclear Vision
...nstruction nuclear reactors, has announced that fuel rods for the first of the plants will be loaded into the reactor in early 2020. This means that the first electricity from the Barakah-1 unit will not hit the grid until later in 2020 at the earliest – over three years after the May 2017 announcement of...
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Tunisia Looks To The Sun To Cut Dependence On Algerian Gas
...tion Plan’ places such factors above environmental concerns as the key motivation for the push for renewables. “The national energy situation is characterized by a growing energy deficit which hit 49% in 2017. This has major implications in terms of energy supply security, notably for the power se...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
North Africa The Key Focus Of Eni Solar Plans
...w energy solutions” element of the company’s 2017-20 strategy outlook with a focus on “hybrid projects” with “technological and geographical synergy with other Eni business lines.” “Our distinctive model consists of replacing internal gas consumption in our assets with solar or wind power… This ap...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
Oman Postpones Misfah With Slowing Demand Growth
...ectricity, from over 240m3/MWh in 2016 to below 190m3/MWh for 2020 and beyond (see chart). Gas consumption in power plants fell for the first time in three years in 2016 to 7.99 bcm (770mn cfd). In the first five months of 2017 it has remained flat year-on-year at 710mn cfd). While OPWP says that its el...
Volume: 60Issue: 26Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2017 -
Saudi Grid Has 74.3GW Generating Capacity Available, Says SEC
...so been working on improving the operating efficiency of its power plants. Average thermal efficiency in SEC power plants was 35.6% in Q1 2017, the company says, compared with 34.5% in the same quarter of 2016. The utility claims that efficiency improvements in its oil-fired power plants saved th...
Volume: 60Issue: 25Published at Fri, 23 Jun 2017 -
EBRD Kick-Starts Egypt Solar With $500mn Investment In 16 PV Projects
...nstruction before the end of 2017.” SOLAR STORM The Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) pegs Egypt’s total end-2016 renewables capacity at 3.66GW. However almost 3GW of this is hydropower – primarily Nasser’s flagship 1960s Aswan High Dam megaproject – some 750MW is wind, wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 24Published at Fri, 16 Jun 2017