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UAE Nuclear Powergen Soars, As Saudi Seeks US Partnership
...5MW Bushehr-1 reactor in 2011, a decade after work on the plant had resumed in 2001 after being halted by the 1979 revolution (MEES, 7 September 2012). Bushehr-1 generates around 6TWh annually – around 15% of the UAE total (see chart) – but while Iran was a regional pioneer, plans for Russia’s Rosatom to...
Volume: 68Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2025 -
Kuwait Aims To Award Solar Project By Year End
...cilities at Shagaya. The outgoing minister previously headed up the facility from its inception in 2011. RENEWABLES: 30% BY 2030? Mr Hajraf told the WEF that “we just updated our strategy from a 15% renewables share by 2030 to 30% by 2030.” According to Kuwait’s definition, this entails re...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Energean & Vitol Eye Israel-Cyprus FLNG Tie-Up
...esumably the choice of Cyprus, rather than Israel, as a location for the FLNG is with the aim of securing supplies from one of the three discovered gas fields off the south of the island: Chevron’s 4.1tcf Aphrodite (2011 discovery), Eni’s 6-8tcf Calypso (2018), and US major ExxonMobil’s 2019 5-8tcf Glaucus di...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Delek Readies New East Med Spin-Off
...8% of Tamar (see charts and MEES, 4 December 2020). The 22.7tcf Leviathan field produced 1.04bn cfd for Q1, whilst operator Chevron (36.66%) has advanced expansion plans since taking over Noble Energy late last year (MEES, 23 April). Cyprus’ 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery, also now operated by Ch...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
Saudi Nuclear Plan: Slow Progress, But Expanded Scope Eyed
...nounced by government nuclear and renewables agency Kacare in 2011 that called for 16 nuclear power plants with a combined capacity of 18GW and an expected investment of more than $80bn (MEES, 3 May 2013). In a shake-up of power sector plans by Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman in 2016, Kacare reduced it...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
GCC Grid Increasingly Used For Power Trading, But Volumes Small
...nks between the six GCC member countries, reports increased use of its grid for electricity trading rather than only for exceptional transfers to prevent local supply outages. Although the GCCIA briefly experimented with trading in 2010 and 2011, it is only more recently that planned transfers of el...
Volume: 61Issue: 21Published at Fri, 25 May 2018 -
UAE Finishes Building First Nuclear Plant, But Start-Up Delayed To 2018
...erating systems will be conducted at each stage of this process over a period of several months.” When Barakah-1 is brought online it will be the second nuclear power plant in the Mena region, following the start-up in 2011 of a 1GW plant built in Iran by Russia’s Rosatom. The Russian state firm is in...
Volume: 60Issue: 19Published at Fri, 12 May 2017 -
Egypt’s $25bn Russian Nuclear Loan Raises Questions Of Economics And Transparency
...shehr-1 1 1 3.5 Start-up 2011, operation intermittent until 2013 Bushehr-2,3 2 2 11 Rosatom to build for start-up 2023, 2025 UAE Barakah 5.6 4 20 Under construction by Kepco. All du...
Volume: 59Issue: 21Published at Fri, 27 May 2016 -
Oman Reviewing Electricity Policy, Targeting Efficiency
...ectricity Intensity (Megawatt-hours per user account) 2005 2011 % Change Residential 12.8 16.3 27 Industrial 1,561.50 4,074.90 161 Co...
Volume: 56Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2013 -
KACARE Outlines Saudi Electricity Energy Source Scenario
...d-2022. In June 2011 KACARE said it plans to build 16 nuclear power plants at an expected cost of more than SR300bn ($80bn). The World Nuclear Association (WNA) says that Riyadh has already set up a national atomic regulatory authority. It adds that “a nuclear cooperation agreement with France in early 2011...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013 -
Saudi Aramco Boasts Growing Solar Prowess, Eyes Geothermal
...nior energy figures in the Kingdom are growing more frequent as the fuel problems intensify. The IMF estimated in 2011 that Saudi Arabia spends about 20% of its GDP supporting subsidies, including fuel subsidies. This proportion has continued to grow as subsidized prices in turn fuel ever hi...
Volume: 56Issue: 22Published at Wed, 01 May 2013