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Morocco’s ONEE Announces 2013-17 Electricity Plan
...e 300MW Tarfaya wind farm at the end of 2014 and Spain’s Gamesa is adding 120MW of capacity at the Metline and Kchabta wind farms (MEES, 23 August)....
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
MENA Generators Pushing Non-Conventional Power Projects
...MW farm at Qatinah in Homs province; a 100MW at al-Sukhnah in Homs province; and a 50MW at al-Halas in Qunaitra province. Bids are requested to be submitted to the ministry’s National Energy Research Center by 6 January 2014. MENA Non-Conventional Power Projects Co...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
OPWP Launches Qurayyat IWP, Al-Ghubrah Finance Closed
...16 September financial close for the 191,000 cmd Al-Ghubrah IWP, which received Muscat’s approval in December (MEES, 26 July). Cadagua says the plant will cost $306mn and is due for completion in 2014. OPWP’s current seven-year plan (2013-19) predicts water demand in its northern op...
Volume: 56Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2013 -
Turkey Orders Turbines
...tsubishi Electric. The plant is scheduled to go onstream in 2015. Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi’s TAQA has deferred to 2014 a decision on the development of up to 7GW of coal-fired power capacity and associated mines in the Afsin-Elbistan region with Turkey’s Electricity Generation Company (EÜAŞ). The fi...
Volume: 56Issue: 37Published at Fri, 13 Sep 2013 -
Renewables Progress ‘Hangs In The Balance’, Despite Better Economics
...0GW by 2020 - Palestine 44MW by 2020 45MW by 2020 20MW by 2020 21MW by 2020 Qatar - 1.8GW by 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 36Published at Fri, 06 Sep 2013 -
Wind Power Dominates Near-Term MENA Renewables Projects Mix
...entified six potential sites for new wind farms in the Gulf of Suez area. It has invited companies to prequalify to develop 100MW projects. France’s GDF Suez is currently building Africa’s largest wind project, the 300MW Tarfaya wind farm in Morocco. This is due online at the end of 2014. Meanwhile, in Tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Morocco Awards 2 Power Projects, Lines Up Solar Bidders
...cond in April 2014. TAQA recently secured $1.4bn in finance for the project (MEES, 8 February). Solar Prequalification The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) meanwhile announced it had prequalified a number of consortia to build the Noor-2 and Noor-3 concentrated solar power (CSP) pl...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
OPWP Sets Out Development Priorities, Reports 2012 Progress
...ceived approval to proceed with the 42mn gal/day (190,000 cmd) Al Ghubrah IWP, with a view to commercial operation in October 2014. Meanwhile, OPWP engaged US consulting firm NERA to help develop a strategic plan for the future expiry of power and water purchase agreements. The first of OPWP’s existing co...
Volume: 56Issue: 30Published at Fri, 26 Jul 2013 -
Baghdad And Kurds Choose Different Power Paths
...rbine 292 1x292MW Q1 2014 Delayed from Sep 2013 Salah Al-Din 2,274 Salah Al-Di...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
IDA: New Desalination Technologies Need Time
...e pilot program in early 2014. “The emphasis in the pilot program is not on the energy source but on new desalination technologies,” says Dr Sommariva. “The breakthrough technologies will be coupled to an energy source later. We will work with the new desalination technologies to give the lo...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Lebanon Struggles To Plug Power Shortage
...rmeister & Wain is currently undertaking a €270mn contract to add 194mw of generating capacity at the Zouk power plant and 78mw at Jiyyeh, both near Beirut. They are scheduled to be handed over to EDL in 2014, running initially on diesel and converting later to gas-fired operation when planned gas in...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
IEA Sees ‘Significant Potential’ For Solar Power In Middle East
...lar capacity (PV and CSP) in 2013. The country has adopted long-term renewable generation targets and is seeking to install 1.8gw of large-scale solar capacity by 2014. However, “the 2014 goal may be overly ambitious, given lack of deployment history, but medium-term growth is likely to be ro...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatar Plans First IWPP Project In Five Years
...ter, while the planned IWP will have 40-60mn gal/day capacity. Both plants are expected to be built near Ras Laffan. Kahramaa has invited expressions of interest for the two projects. The IWPP is expected to be tendered in 2014-15. Kahramaa technical director Ahmad al-Nasir told a MEED co...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatari Solar Plans: Dark Clouds Gather
...versify the economy away from hydrocarbons the state-funded Qatar Foundation set up a joint venture Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) to build a $1bn plant to make polysilicon. It will initially produce 8,000 tons/year by the second half of 2014, delayed by a year. This is enough for solar panels to fit ou...
Volume: 56Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2013 -
Oman Qualifies Bidders For Musandam Plant
...s Main Interconnected System (MIS) grid will rise by 9.5% a year during 2013-19, while Salalah System peak demand will grow by 12% a year. The Barka Phase 3, Sohar Phase 2 and Sur projects are expected to add a combined 3.49gw of capacity by 2014 (MEES, 24 May). OPWP is also studying a 200-300mw pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2013 -
Oman Plans For Power Demand Growth
...the MIS through 2019 as: completion of the Barka Phase 3, Sohar Phase 2 and Sur plants, to provide a combined 3.49gw capacity in 2014; the addition of 200mw of solar capacity, subject to government approval; the expiration of contracts at existing plants with 1.517gw capacity; and the provision of on...
Volume: 56Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2013 -
Jordan Testing Interest In Waste-To-Energy Projects
...ES, 11 January). Six companies have recently submitted bids to build a 500mw oil shale power plant, with construction to begin in 2014 for start-up by 2017. The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) is providing $150mn funding for a 65mw wind farm in Ma’an governorate (MEES, 10 May), wh...
Volume: 56Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2013 -
KACARE Outlines Saudi Electricity Energy Source Scenario
...rst Saudi nuclear power plant, which envisaged: procurement during 2013-15 and final vendor selection at end-2015; detailed design in 2014-17; non-nuclear construction during 2016-21; nuclear construction from mid-2016 to mid-2021; fuel loading in mid-2021; and commercial operation at en...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013 -
SEC Awards PP13/14 Management Contract To WorleyParsons
...cle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants. The plants will each have 1.65gw generating capacity. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for PP13 and PP14 are expected to be tendered in 2014, with a view to start-up in 2017. WorleyParsons said the EPCM scope of work in...
Volume: 56Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2013 -
Lebanon Starts Up Power Barge, Awards Contract For New Plants
...ectricity, respectively. Being built by Danish contractor Burmeister and Wain at an estimated cost of €270mn, they are scheduled to be handed over to EDL in 2014. Initially run on diesel fuel, they will be convertible to gas-fired operation when Lebanon has gas supply infrastructure working as planned. ...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013