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Qatar Power Demand Tops 7GW; QEWC Advances 2.5GW Plant
...hind this summer’s consumption peak. Kahramaa says the new peak is almost 5% higher than the 2014 high of 6.74GW, and was achieved without an increase in electricity network faults. The state utility says that Qatar’s peak electricity load has increased by 8.5% a year during 2010-14. Qatar can cu...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
IEA Sees Cost Of Renewables Falling, But Regional Adoption Constrained
...velopment remains patchy. Policies aimed at enhancing energy security and sustainability lie behind record growth in global renewable electricity capacity in 2014. An additional 130GW of renewables capacity – more than 45% of net capacity added – took total global renewables capacity to 1.81TW by the en...
Volume: 58Issue: 41Published at Fri, 09 Oct 2015 -
Saudi Electricity Demand To Rise 32% By 2020, Says ECRA
...pected need. Peak electricity load in Saudi Arabia is projected to rise by 18GW or 32% from 2014 to 2020, according to the Electricity and Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA). In its newly-released annual statistical booklet for 2014, ECRA sees peak demand rising from 57GW in 2014 to 75GW in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 40Published at Fri, 02 Oct 2015 -
SEC/Aramco Eyes Cogen Supply For Fadhili Gas Plant
...shore fields including 500,000 b/d Khursaniyah, which is already in production, as well as offshore fields. The processing plant will handle 2.5bn cfd of gas and is expected to come onstream in 2019, according to Aramco’s 2014 annual report. SEC says the cogeneration plant will reach full commercial op...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
UAE Seeks Solar Bidders As Nuclear And Coal Plans Advance
...r the Barakah-1 reactor started in 2012. ENEC has applied for operating licenses for the first two plants (MEES, 3 April). ENEC received government approval in September 2014 to build the third and fourth plants. ENEC recently completed the installation of two steam generators at Barakah-2, wh...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
Jordan $7bn China Deal To Fund Shale-Burning Power Plant
...rchase agreement. Apco and Nepco agreed on a unit cost of 95 fils/kWh ($0.13/kWh), which compares with an average cost of 170 fils/kWh ($0.24/kWh) from Jordan’s existing power plants (MEES, 18 July 2014). Apco has contracted China’s Guangdong Power Engineering Corporation (GPEC) to build the power pl...
Volume: 58Issue: 38Published at Fri, 18 Sep 2015 -
Israel Powergen Capacity Nears 17GW With Completion Of Haruvit CCGT
...t to be finalized (MEES, 7 August). Meanwhile, Alstom is building Israel’s first pumped storage plant at Gilboa, 60km east of Haifa, for start-up in 2018. The plant will have 300MW capacity and incorporate two pump-turbines (MEES, 17 January 2014). On a much smaller scale, Israel’s Eco Wave Po...
Volume: 58Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2015 -
Minister Outlines Iraq’s Power Sector Woes As IMF Warns On Rising Subsidies
...ightly higher than 2014 output and compares with less than 1.5mn cfd in 2010. However, actual sales gas has declined, from over 690mn cfd in 2010 to less than 610mn cfd in 2014 and 590mn cfd for January to May this year. Gas flaring has risen from 51% in 2010 to a whopping 71% for July. While the Sh...
Volume: 58Issue: 36Published at Fri, 04 Sep 2015 -
Oil Burning In Gulf Countries On Course To Top 2014’s Record
...Oil Burning In Gulf Countries On Course To Top 2014’s Record TOTAL OIL BURN* (‘000 B/D) DIRECT CRUDE BURN: 1H15 DOWN ON YEAR EARLIER BUT JUNE FIGURES SUGGEST RECORD SUMMER (‘000 B/D) SAUDI FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION UP STRONGLY ON YEAR-AGO LEVELS (‘000 B/D)...
Volume: 58Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2015 -
Turkey Coal Power Boost
...ns/year of lignite fuel. Start-up of the Bolu Göynük plant takes Turkey’s coal-fired capacity to 12.8GW. Coal represents a significant part of Turkey’s generating capacity, which amounted to 67.6GW at the end of 2014, and could potentially increase its share as Ankara seeks to limit its de...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
UAE’s RAK Plans Privately Financed Desalination
...ich is due to start up in 2016 (MEES, 19 December 2014)....
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Powers Ahead To Supply Record As New Capacity Comes Online
...st power plant. Yet this is a marked improvement on last summer, when the system collapsed under the strain of years of underinvestment and there were severe blackouts across Egypt (MEES, 12 September 2014). Since the summer 2014 power meltdown, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has led a charge to re...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Israel Closes $1bn Solar Financing
...e 121MW CSP project last year (MEES, 18 July 2014). Megalim laid the cornerstone for the 121MW project in June, with a view to connecting to the Israeli grid in 2017. The partners expect the plant to deliver 320GWh of electricity to the grid annually. The plant will comprise a 240m high solar to...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2015 -
Lebanese Economy Needs Electric Shock Therapy – IMF
...fugees from war-torn Syria continues to dominate Lebanon’s short-term economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says “electricity reform is an urgent priority” for the Beirut government to kick-start its economy. The Lebanese presidency has lain vacant since May 2014, while a lack of co...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Sadara Inks $3.8bn Power Deal
...ter plus wastewater treatment to be supplied by local utility Marafiq under a SR70mn ($18.7mn) deal (MEES, 21 November 2014). Though Sadara says its feedstock prices will be “subject to the same market forces [as those of] Sadara’s products,” in reality, prices are low and heavily subsidized with th...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Oman Turns To Sun For EOR And Rural Electricity
...ojects under development by PDO. It is among the four most advanced, along with Qarn Alam (steam), Harweel (miscible) and Marmul (polymer). PDO is looking to EOR to help maintain its crude oil production at 550,000 b/d (MEES, 5 September 2014). MIRAAH BY NUMBERS PDO says the Miraah plant will de...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Adds To Solar Plans, Looks To Fund Massive Power Expansion
...ril, down from 4.72bn for 2014 (see p8). Until it can revive upstream activity, the government has turned to LNG imports. EGAS recently began taking deliveries through a 550mn cfd capacity floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) moored at Ain Sukhna. A second FSRU of 500-700mn cfd capacity is...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Power Capacity Boost Gathers Steam
...er the year to June 2014, taking total capacity to 32.02GW. This was almost 6GW above peak recorded consumption of 26.14GW. But demand spiked well above this later in the summer, when outages of both generating capacity and grid infrastructure, coupled with transmission and distribution losses, led to...
Volume: 58Issue: 26Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2015 -
Egypt Completes Smaller Power Plants Amid Major Capacity Hike
...has also connected a 300MW second phase of a power plant at 6th of October City. State generator Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) has already secured loans to upgrade the Damietta West power plant to combined cycle operation (MEES, 7 November 2014). This will raise Damietta West ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015 -
Egypt’s Taqa Plans To Double Capacity To Help Cairo Bridge Power Shortage
...ound 31.5GW, but government faces a steep challenge in tackling both short and medium term supply crises. Peak demand reached 28.25GW in summer 2014, and could rise by 6% this year, according to Electricity Minister Muhammad Shakir. Taqa Executive Chairman Khalid Abu Bakr, speaking to MEES at last we...
Volume: 58Issue: 25Published at Fri, 19 Jun 2015