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Dubai’s DEWA: Peak Load Hit 6.86GW In 2013
...ase (MEES, 25 October 2013). DEWA capacity now stands at 9.656GW of electricity and 470mn gal/day (2.137mn cmd) of desalinated water, says Mr Tayir. Since end-2013 DEWA has begun a 400MW expansion at gas-fired M-Station, with completion scheduled for 2018. DEWA has a Dh20.56bn ($5.55bn) budget for 2014...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Turkey Sees Power Demand Doubling By 2023, Backs Nuclear And Coal
...ll rise to 450 TWh in 2023 from 235 TWh in 2013, having already risen sharply from 132 TWh in 2003. The company expects consumption to reach 256 TWh in 2014. The ministry is working to reduce Turkey’s dependence on imported gas for power generation, through the diversification of primary energy so...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Morocco Looks To Wind To Lessen Energy Imports
...e end of 2014. Nareva currently operates 200MW of wind capacity at Akhfennir, Haouma and Foum el Oued. Morocco’s solar agency Masen has contracted ACWA Power to build the 100MW Noor-1 concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at Ouarzazate, slated for 2H 2015 start-up. Masen has also prequalified bi...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Algeria Confirms Six CCGT Awards, Plans New Solar, Mobile Units
...ectricity is expected in summer 2014. Meanwhile, Sonelgaz is evaluating projects for a total 25GW of solar capacity at Djanet (3MW), Tindouf (9MW) and Tamanrasset (13MW). Further projects in the 400MW program are to be announced soon. Sonelgaz says it has made “significant progress” recently on a 12...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
Algerian Electricity: Ambitious Plans Vs Tricky Reality
...e state obliged to recapitalize these companies regularly.” Despite the constraint on earnings, Mr Boutarfa says that investment in generating capacity, transmission and distribution will enable Sonelgaz to “pass easily” anticipated 2014 peak summer demand of 12.5GW. Sonelgaz says Algerian ge...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
Oman Shake-Up Eyes Spot Generator Market By 2017
...nsultants in early 2014 to develop the spot market rules and related arrangements: “A consultation phase, involving all interested stakeholders, is envisaged later in 2014.” Transition OPWP aims to conduct its first tender for power plants to be operated under the new terms in 2016-17. The next te...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Dubai’s Dewa Adding 400mw
...d 140mn gal/day (636,000 cmd) of water. The station’s current 2.06GW capacity comes from 6x234MW gas turbines and 3x218MW steam units. M Station, completed last year, is the largest power and desalination plant in the UAE (MEES, 12 April 2013). DEWA’s total 2014 budget is Dh20.56bn (5.55bn), of...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Turkey Power Projects Pipeline Seeks To Maintain Fuel Balance
...gned an MOU for a 10-year program that would start with a 1.44GW plant (MEES, 11 January 2013). TAQA subsequently deferred its investment decision to 2014 because of the political schism that emerged between the two countries after the military coup that deposed President Mursi in Egypt (MEES, 13 Se...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Jordan Pushes Shale And Wind In Quest For Diversity
...ES, 18 October 2013); a 146mw gas-fired plant at Zarqa for start-up soon and a 143MW expansion of Samra III gas-fired plant for 2015 (MEES, 9 November 2012); and a 573MW tri-fuel plant at al-Manakher for early 2014 (MEES, 19 October 2012). ...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Saudi Starts 4GW CCGT Plant, Further 30GW Planned By 2018
...place by end-2018. SEC’s 2012 annual report says its planned generation projects until 2021 include 20.4GW of steam plants, 3.6GW of CCGTs and 3.77GW of upgrades for combined-cycle operation. Other key Saudi power projects set to come online by 2014 are state oil firm Saudi Aramco’s giant 4GW in...
Volume: 57Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2014 -
Turkish Wind Power Soars With 124MW Of New Deals
...Hatay province. Deliveries will take place in 2014-15 and start-up is scheduled for February 2015. Acciona says the turbines are designed for sites with low wind speeds. The contract includes operation and maintenance for 10 years. Also in Hatay, Denmark’s Vestas has received an order from Tu...
Volume: 57Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2014 -
MENA Power Survey - Regional Capacity Rises 4.4% to 350GW In 2013
...th unreliable supplies. AES Jordan and Japan’s Mitsui contracted Finland’s Wärtsilä to build a 240MW tri-fuel plant near ‘Amman, for start-up by July 2014. This will burn HFO, distillates or gas – a response to the all but drying up of gas flows from Egypt (MEES, 11 January 2013). Jordan is also de...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014 -
Algeria Awards $4Bn EPC Contracts For Six CCGT Plants
...time to help meet summer 2014 peak demand. Renewables Plans Sonelgaz’s SKTM renewables subsidiary has also awarded China’s Yingli Solar a contract to design and install 233MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity at four separate sites, with construction expected to begin in January 2018 and to...
Volume: 56Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2013 -
DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar
...UAE DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced a total budget of Dh20.56bn ($5.55bn) for 2014, of which more than one third is intended for spending on capacity expansion projects and equipment pu...
Volume: 56Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 -
SEC Awards Revised Rabigh-2 IPP Project
...bruary). SEC has appointed Germany’s Fichtner as consultant for the Dhuba-1 ISCC, which it expected to start up in 2017. Dhuba-2 is still envisaged as an HFO-fired plant, with start-up planned for 2018. ACWA and Samsung are already building SEC’s 3.93GW Qurayyah IPP, which is due online in 2014. Qu...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Hydrocarbons Remain Key To MENA Power Expansion
...nagement contract for PP13 and PP14 to Australia’s WorleyParsons. SEC plans to award engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the plants in 2014 with a view to 2017 start-up (MEES, 3 May). In September, Korea’s Hyundai awarded France’s Alstom a €170mn contract for four 720MW steam tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Oman Plans First Solar Unit Under Rural Plan
...ar. Start-up is scheduled for June 2014. AER decreed in March that Raeco must incorporate renewables technology – either solar or wind – in each project for which it seeks authority funding. AER estimates Raeco’s total generating capacity at 282MW from 45 diesel-fired plants. Most of Oman’s ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal
...UAE RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) plans to invite bids for separate solar power and desalination plants worth a combined $450mn in a tender to be organized in 2014 by local private utility Utico. The solar plant will have 20MW capacity, wh...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Güriş Orders 53 Turbines For Wind Farms
...30 October that the projects are expected to be commissioned between late 2014 and summer 2015. The scope of work includes turbine delivery and a five-year service agreement. Siemens said that 25 turbines with a combined capacity of 77MW will be installed at the Fatma wind farm in Muğla. A to...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Shuweihat S2 Inaugurated As Abu Dhabi Expects Demand Growth
...rrently a partner in an independent power producer (IPP) project under development alongside Shuweihat S2. The Shuweihat S3 plant will have capacity to generate 1.6GW of electricity and is expected to start up in March 2014. Adwea is also studying bids for an IWPP to be built alongside an existing power and wa...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013