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Europe Probes Second Cyprus-Linked EU-Funded Energy Project
...ate relies on burning fuel oil for power; oil burn accounted for 75% of its power generation last year, with renewables contributing 25%. Cyprus opposition party Akel’s Stefanos Stefanou told lawmakers earlier this month that Cyprus has racked up a €1.3bn ($1.5bn) bill to the EU since 2017 fo...
Volume: 68Issue: 37Published at Fri, 12 Sep 2025 -
Cairo Plans Bumper Winter LNG Imports But Power Cuts May Return
...RU, saw imports of 505,000 tons, the highest monthly figure since 2017. Presuming that the full 20 cargoes unload by the end of September this implies total Q3 import volumes of 1.4mn tons, the highest figure since 3Q 2017 (see chart 1). GAS OUTPUT: FROM BAD TO WORSE Egypt’s ga...
Volume: 67Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 -
Algeria’s Gas Burn Surges Amid Record Power Demand
...ly 2017. Gas accounts for about 99% of Algeria’s power generation capacity, so any power demand increase directly translates into a rise in gas consumption. But a surge in sales gas output this year on the back of a slew of new project start-ups (MEES, 21 May) means any additional domestic demand ca...
Volume: 64Issue: 38Published at Fri, 24 Sep 2021 -
Riyadh’s SWCC Privatization: Desalination And Powergen Assets On The Block
...prove our operational excellence and efficiency” in preparation for privatization (MEES, 19 October 2018). This has seen SWCC output increase as a percentage of total Saudi desalinated water production, rebounding from a minimum of 48% of total output in 2016 to 66% of 2017’s total of 2.46bn m3 in 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2019 -
Abu Dhabi Eyes Innovative Approach To Energy Transition
...plying total nationwide capacity of 93GW (MEES, 13 January 2017). This is around three times current capacity, hardly boosting confidence in the efforts to improve consumption efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint. These figures imply thermal (mainly gas) capacity rising from 28GW to 35GW by 2050, “cl...
Volume: 62Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019 -
Saudi Arabia Pushes For Enhanced Gas Role In Energy Transition
...x, with state regulator ECRA’s latest statistics showing that in 2017, gas fueled a record 53.7% of all electricity generation (MEES, 19 April). There is a clear geographic disparity in the kingdom, where liquids have been virtually eliminated from power generation from the eastern and central ar...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Saudi To Push On With ‘Full Cycle’ Nuclear, Probably
...nsions, Saudi Arabia’s desire to control the whole nuclear enrichment process is sure to raise eyebrows. LEADING PLAYER The leading Mena nuclear player is Russian state firm Rosatom, which is set to follow up its plants in Iran with four units totalling 4.8GW in Egypt (MEES, 15 December 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2019 -
Iraq Aims To End Blackouts As Protests Rage On
...emens is upgrading and expanding a number of existing power plants, while GE is providing turbines and generators for several combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants which are under development (MEES, 8 December 2017). MOUNTING PRESSURE Iraq’s powergen woes are a key grievances ci...
Volume: 61Issue: 39Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2018 -
Acwa Power: Solar Record-Setter, But Any Coal’s A Goal
...el oil (HFO) and gas. Even its 15 projects under construction include a coal-fired plant and one burning HFO. Acwa 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, UA...
Volume: 61Issue: 38Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2018 -
SEC Takes First Steps Toward Saudi Power Sector Shake-Up
...ductions in electricity price subsidies and establishment of a ‘Citizen’s Account’ compensation scheme for poorer households meant that by late last year this had slipped to a pledge from SEC chairman Saleh al-Awajji for “some achievements during 2018” (MEES, 22 December 2017). SEC reported a whacking 52...
Volume: 61Issue: 37Published at Fri, 14 Sep 2018 -
Mena Coal Plans Get Big Boost From Egyptian Project With Chinese Cash
...59 Handed over by Sepco 3 in July 2017 Awarded: 9.79 44.54 Safi Mo...
Volume: 61Issue: 36Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2018 -
Qatar Plans First Significant Solar Capacity
...y plank of this had been a January 2017 deal with Abu Dhabi state firm Masdar, a firm with much more renewables experience, to jointly develop “commercially viable renewable energy projects in the UAE, Qatar, and international markets.” QEWC’s overseas investment affiliate Nebras Power and state in...
Volume: 60Issue: 39Published at Fri, 29 Sep 2017 -
Dubai Breaks Solar Capacity, Power Pricing Records With CSP Project
...70 Current Capacity 28.83 Projects Awarded: 13.57 Adwea (2017) Al-Mirfa CCGT (Ga...
Volume: 60Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2017 -
Algeria Plots Unlikely Power Capacity Boost Whilst Rejecting Foreign Funding
...pacity delays (see p13). The first was awarded under a $1.06bn contract (MEES, 30 November 2012), while six more were awarded together under contracts valued at $4.05bn (MEES, 7 March 2014). The Ain Arnat plant was scheduled to reach full capacity in 2016 and the other six were expected to follow in 2017...
Volume: 60Issue: 37Published at Fri, 15 Sep 2017 -
Iraq Sparking Up Gas-Fired Capacity, Despite Fuel Supply Constraints
...gh and pipeline imports from Iran have begun. Yet the amount of new generating capacity due online means that gas supplies will remain overstretched for the foreseeable future. Iraq’s peak power load was 14.35GW in 2016; in 2017 it is expected to be 7.7% higher at 15.45GW, according to the fe...
Volume: 60Issue: 36Published at Fri, 08 Sep 2017 -
Saudi Invites Proposals For 400MW Wind Power Project
...st year. Progress in wind has been even slower. In early 2017 state petroleum firm Saudi Aramco and US conglomerate General Electric (GE) started up a single 2.75MW wind turbine at the Turaif products storage terminal in the northwest of the kingdom. The turbine was planned as a pilot for a 50MW wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 35Published at Fri, 01 Sep 2017 -
Jordan Secures Finance For 50MW Solar Project, Brings 43MW Online
...oposed 49.5MW Daehan wind farm at Tafila, for which Korea’s Daelim and Kosco have signed a power purchase agreement with Jordan’s Ministry of Energy. The partners aim to begin construction in 2017 for start-up in 2019. SOLAR START-UPS Jordan has recently started up its first solar plants, in th...
Volume: 59Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016 -
Abu Dhabi Looks To Break Dubai’s Solar Cost Record
...wea aims to sign a power purchase agreement with the winning consortium in the first quarter of 2017. While Adwea did not list the bidders, reports say Japan’s Marubeni and China’s Jinko Solar submitted the lowest bid. Although Adwea was the first Middle Eastern utility to develop a large-scale so...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
UAE Seeks Solar Bidders As Nuclear And Coal Plans Advance
...port says Dubai’s achievement of “the lowest solar price ever achieved worldwide” suggests solar costs are “poised to decrease even further.” Phase-2 of Dubai’s solar park recently reached financial close and is scheduled for start-up by April 2017. (MEES, 24 July). PV modules for phase-2 will be pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
Israel Powergen Capacity Nears 17GW With Completion Of Haruvit CCGT
...rael’s Noy Fund started construction in June for 2017 start-up. The second phase of Ashalim will be a 110MW CSP plant, for which Spain’s Abengoa and Israel’s Shikun and Binui recently announced financial close with a view to 2018 start-up. Details of a solar PV plant to be built at the same site have ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2015