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Oman’s Forecasts 85% Power Demand Rise To 2021; Gas Shortage A Worry
...18 (MEES, 27 March). OPWP is also assisting the Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) with a 120MW IPP in Musandam for start-up in 2016. Oman completed a 220KV link to the GCC grid in the UAE in 2011, and officially joined the GGC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) in December. OPWP says this li...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
MENA Nuclear Program Expanding, But Some Preliminary Schedules Sliding
...rrors the 1992 agreement under which Bushehr-1 was completed in 2011. The difference is that Iran will provide fuel rods, rather than Rosatom as in the original deal. This could prove controversial as Tehran and international governments negotiate to end sanctions, which were imposed because of concerns th...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
GCC Grid Growth Stalled As Oman Set To Join
...GWh in 2010 to 815GWh in 2013, though even the higher figure represents less than 0.25% of regional demand. Scheduled trading started at 0.31GWh in 2010 and rose to 46GWh in 2011, but has been zero ever since (see chart). Announcing Oman’s decision to join the GCC grid, GCCIA director Matar al-Ni...
Volume: 57Issue: 48Published at Fri, 28 Nov 2014 -
Oman Turns To Wind To Cut Rural Generating Costs
...13 to 195MW in 2020. This projection excludes a proposed aluminum smelter under consideration at Duqm, which would consume 1GW. Oman Rural Electricity Supply* (Gwh) 2009 2010 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones
...ants. Iran’s nuclear program has been blighted with a series of delays and setbacks. The 1GW capacity Bushehr plant started up on 3 September 2011 after a long and controversial stop-start development program. Plant manager Hossein Darakshande announced on 8 October that the plant had delivered 8.7TWh of...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Solar Gets Key Financing Boost, But Much More Needed
...vestment since 2011, committing $590mn to date. Other World Bank investment in the MENA region targets economies hit by the Arab Spring, which need urgent structural reforms to break the vicious circle of slow growth and political instability. Oil importers Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon in particular ha...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Eyes 2016 Start For 650MW Suez Plant
...censing round suggests the country’s ailing gas sector will soon get a much-needed boost, even if exploration takes off it will take years for this to feed through into significantly higher output (see p2). Egyptian gas output has fallen consistently since the ‘Revolution’ of early 2011, hitting a 9-year lo...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Tehran Seeks Increased Power Productivity
...red], Bandar Abbas [1.28GW oil] and Shahid Montazeri [1.6GW oil] power plants.” Tehran and Moscow have been talking for some time about Russia’s Rosatom building two new 1GW nuclear power plants alongside the plant at Bushehr that is completed in 2011....
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
Turkey Completes 900MW Gas Plant As Part Of Ambitious Capacity Expansion
...04 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Thermal 23.0 24...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Capacity Hits 15.5GW With Shuweihat S3 Completion
...pco) and the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA, for which ADWEC is the sole buyer of electricity and water). Sapco developed Shuweihat S3 at a cost of $1.5bn, under a 25-year build-own operate agreement with ADWEA. Construction started in March 2011 (MEES, 21 February 2011). Siemens su...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Israel Upgrading Power Plants To Exploit Natural Gas Reserves
...wnward trend (see graph). Israel has been slowly phasing out the use of both in power plants since 2008 when it began importing Egyptian gas. The sharp downward trend – gasoil consumption alone halved in 2009 – was temporarily sent into reverse in 2011 and 2012, when Egypt first reduced shipments and th...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
Jordan Advances Solar Plans In Restive Southern Deserts
...the wake of 2011 regional unrest – is in talks to finance several smaller PV plants in the Ma’an area through loan packages. The three projects, totaling 40 MW, are being developed by Norway’s Scatec Solar and the European Jordanian Renewable Energy Projects company. The EBRD says that it may pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 33Published at Fri, 15 Aug 2014 -
AES/Mitsui Start Up 240MW Jordan Tri-Fuel Plant
...s a key factor in selecting technology for the second project. Before the Mubarak regime collapsed in 2011, Jordan relied on Egyptian gas for around 70-80% of its power generation fuel. But gas supply then became increasingly unreliable, comprising less than 20% of fuel burned in 2012, according to Ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Jordan Approves Shale-Fired Power, Mining Project
...pplies became intermittent after the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011. This forced an even greater reliance on imported oil for power generation – nearly 90% in 2012 compared with less than 60% in 2009 – and sped up the ministry’s pursuit of fuel diversity. Ambitious Plans Jordan cu...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
Turkey Hikes Generation Capacity By 12%, Eyes Coal Expansion
...05 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Thermal 23.0 24.1 26...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Power Capacity Hits 13.9GW
...07 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Power Capacity (GW) 5.53 7.17 7.88 8....
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Sonelgaz Generating Capacity Up 2GW In 2013, But Finances ‘Fragile’
...this total. He noted that Sonelgaz invested a total AD409bn ($5.2bn) in 2013, an increase of 77.5% over 2012, of which almost half was allocated for power generation.. Sonelgaz Financial Results (Ad Bn) 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Middle East Oil Burn To Rise, Says IEA
...ue.” While the share of gas for power generation increased from 56% in 2001 to 64% in 2010, “oil has been coming back” with its share rising to average 37% for 2011-13. “Despite the region’s continued addiction to oil and gas, renewable sources and nuclear will amount to 6% of total generation by 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014 -
Renewables: Turkey, UAE Make Progress But MENA Investment Lags
...e record level in 2011. Of this investment only $9bn was in the Middle East and Africa, and this includes $4.9bn from South Africa alone – less than $4bn, ie well under 2% of the global total, was in MENA (see chart). New Capacity Turkey added 112MW of geothermal generating capacity in 2013, ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Cyprus Lays Out Renewables Plans
...timism is not shared by the Cyprus Green Party which predicts the government could still fall short of its 13% target if more is not done on the renewables front. The Greens argue that following the 2011 Mari Naval Base munitions explosion, which took out much of the island’s main power plant at ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014