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Oman To Add 4.8GW To Grid By 2022 As Electricity Demand Forecast To Rise 74%
...MW of capacity by 2018. Raeco also operates 91MW of diesel capacity in Musandam and is building the 120MW gas-fired Musandam IPP for completion in early 2017. OMAN ELECTRICITY DEMAND PROJECTIONS (GW...
Volume: 59Issue: 29Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2016 -
Saudi Electricity Taps China For $1.5bn, Takes Expansion Funding To $33bn
...ant, due online in 2017, which is being built by Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, incorporating turbines and generators from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MEES, 11 December 2015). ICBC’s loan is not linked to a specific project, and is likely an opportunistic investment by China at a time wh...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016 -
Dubai Sets New PV Cost Benchmark In 800MW Phase Three Of Solar Park
...rgest single-site solar park in the world. A 13MW first phase was connected to the grid in 2013, while the 200MW second phase is scheduled to become operational in 2017. Dubai’s success with reducing electricity costs in its second and third phase solar park bids will likely be scrutinized with gr...
Volume: 59Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2016 -
Kuwait To Hike Gas-Fired Capacity After Bagging More LNG
...finery (MEES, 16 October 2015). KUWAIT'S POWER & WATER PROJECTS Plant Fuel GW '000 m/d Al-Zour North 1 (2016) Gas 1.5 486 Al-Shegaya (2017) Solar 0.05 - Al-Zour No...
Volume: 59Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2016 -
Oman Targets Up To 2GW Of New Post-2020 Capacity
...rayyat IWP 200 2017 Salalah 2 IPP 445 2018 Barka 3 IWP 280 2018 Sohar 2 IWP 250 2018 Dhofar IWP 80 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
International Investors Size Up Ambitious Egypt Wind And Solar Program
...bel El Zeit area – one is for 120MW and one for 40MW. The capacity is due online in 2017 at an existing 200MW Gamesa-built wind farm. Earlier NREA awarded Spain’s Gamesa a €220mn ($246mn) turnkey contract for a 220MW wind farm at Gebel El Zeit, for start-up in 2017. Meanwhile, EETC has signed an Mo...
Volume: 59Issue: 22Published at Fri, 03 Jun 2016 -
Saudi Edges Up Capacity, Looks To IPPs For Boost
...arted up in third quarter 2014 is expected to reach full commercial operation this year, the 2.10GW Rabigh-2 CCGT plant is expected to start commercial operation in June 2017, and the 1.5GW Fadhili cogen JV between SEC and Aramco is “currently at the proposal phase.” SEC expects the signing of a co...
Volume: 59Issue: 20Published at Fri, 20 May 2016 -
OPWP Pushing Spot Market Development, Eyes GCC Electricity Trading
...VELOPMENT Barka 1 Ph 2 55 2016 Qurayyat IWP 200 2017 Salalah 2 IPP 445 2018 Barka 3 IWP 280 2018 Sohar 2 IWP 250 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2016 -
UAE Tendering 1.15GW Of Solar, Dubai Receives Record Low Bid
...pansion project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2017. UAE POWER GENERATION CAPACITY Plants GW Adwea 10 Gas-Fired, 1 Solar* 15.5 Dewa 10 Gas-Fired, 1 Solar^ 9.66 Sewa 6 Gas/Di...
Volume: 59Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2016 -
Egypt Secures Saudi, UAE Funding For Power Expansion, Awards Wind Projects
...enty 2MW turbines – to be installed at an existing 200MW Gamesa-built wind farm. Gamesa says delivery of turbines for the larger project will begin in October for commissioning in third quarter 2017. Deliveries for the smaller project will begin in the third quarter for early 2017 commissioning. Ga...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Jordan: Wind Gathers Pace In Bid To Diversify
...nstruction in 2017 with a view to first electricity generation in 2019. Start-up of the Elecnor plant takes Jordan’s installed generating capacity to 4.72GW, after the 99MW Hussein steam turbine plant was decommissioned in January. It is Jordan’s second wind farm following the JWPC consortium’s 117MW pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Qatar Starts Construction Of 2.5GW Power/Desalination Plant, Eyes Solar Venture
...da said the project would be phased: “The first phase will be completed by the second quarter of 2017, with capacity to produce 40mn gal/day [180,000 m3/d] of water. The project will reach full capacity in the third quarter of 2018.” CAPACITY PLAN QEWC managing director Fahd al-Muhannadi told re...
Volume: 59Issue: 13Published at Fri, 01 Apr 2016 -
Kuwait Boosts Gas-Fired Power Capacity, Prepares Further LNG Imports
...Spain’s TSK to build the 50MW Al-Shegaya solar plant. This will be Kuwait’s first utility-scale solar project – although two 10MW projects are expected to be completed in 2016 – and is due online by December 2017 (MEES, 18 September 2015). LNG BOOST Kuwait’s gas-fired power plants will in...
Volume: 59Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016 -
Moroccan Renewable Plans Have Wind In Their Sails With 2GW Target In Sight
...hicles’” to develop the projects. Enel says they are expected to be completed and brought online between 2017 and 2020. Electricity generated in the five wind farms will be sold to ONEE under 20-year power purchase agreements. Enel says it will have a 50% shareholding in the projects, comprising a mix of...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Oman Desalination Contracts Signed
...mbined capacity of 530,000 m3/day – equivalent to more than 70% of Oman’s current desalination capacity of 740,000 m3/d – are among a number of projects with a combined desalination capacity of 730,000 m3/d which OPWP intends to bring online during 2017-19. The 280,000 m3/d Barka Phase 4 project will be Om...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Egypt Eyes 11.6GW Of Coal-Fired Power, Easing Pressure On Gas Supplies
...16) 0.65 Oil Abu Qir (2017) 0.18 Gas 6th of October* (2017) 0.34 Gas South Helwan (20...
Volume: 59Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2016 -
Algeria’s Sonelgaz Eyes Foreign Loans To Bridge $10bn Funding Gap
...nerators and petrochemicals producers, not to mention export customers. However, gas supply prospects received a welcome boost last week with the start-up of four fields in the Southern Fields expansion program at In Salah. These are slated to provide a gross addition of 4.5 bcm/year by 2017, though th...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
Egypt Looks Eastwards For Big Power: To China For Coal, To Russia For Nuclear
...id Corporation of China for a $650mn transmission system linking three 4.8GW plants, using gas-fired turbines from the Siemens deal, to Egypt’s grid. These are being built at Beni Suef, Burullus and a planned new capital city 45km east of Cairo, for start-up over 2017-20. Mr Xi signed 21 pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 04Published at Fri, 29 Jan 2016 -
Oman Budget Reforms May Ease Pressure On Gas-Fired Power Plans
...rther last year. BP’s 1bn cfd capacity Khazzan tight gas project, due online in 2017, is Oman’s only hope for a major domestic gas boost in the medium term. Any cuts in gas subsidies could only ease the pressure. OPWP has already begun talks with the Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) about the potential fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
Key 2016 Power Start-Ups Oil & Gas-Fired Despite Increasing Renewable Focus
...me companies have also been contracted to build the 200MW Noor-2 and 150MW Noor-3 plants at the same location, for start-up in 2017. In Jordan, three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are scheduled to start up at Ma’an: the Shams Ma’an joint venture is building a 52.5MW plant, while Norway’s Scatec So...
Volume: 58Issue: 52Published at Wed, 23 Dec 2015