1. Egypt Nuclear Plans Near Go-Ahead, Saudi Looks To Standardize Plant Design

    ...erating: Iran Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 20...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 48
    Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017
  2. Saudi Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia But Continues To Play The Field

    ...an Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013  Under Co...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017
  3. Libya’s Blackouts Continue, Power Needs Fail To Trump Instability

    ...e entire Gecol board. The incoming Gecol chief executive, Ali Muhammad Sassi, has blamed the ongoing blackouts across the country on a combination of an “unprecedented” rise in energy consumption and the fact that plans to build new power stations have been delayed since 2011. Although low te...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 38
    Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2017
  4. Egypt Advances $29bn Nuclear Plant

    ...0     Iran-Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Under Construction 6....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 32
    Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017
  5. Saudi Approves Scaled-Back Nuclear Plans, Studies Reactors Large And Small

    ...shehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013  Under Construction 6....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 30
    Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017
  6. UAE Finishes Building First Nuclear Plant, But Start-Up Delayed To 2018

    ...erating systems will be conducted at each stage of this process over a period of several months.” When Barakah-1 is brought online it will be the second nuclear power plant in the Mena region, following the start-up in 2011 of a 1GW plant built in Iran by Russia’s Rosatom. The Russian state firm is in...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 19
    Published at Fri, 12 May 2017
  7. Algiers Aims For The Sun; Is Its Head In The Clouds?

    ...ogram to develop 22GW in renewables energy capacity by 2030, comprising 13.6GW of solar PV, 2GW of concentrated solar power, 5GW of wind power and 1.4GW from other sources (see table). The plans were introduced in 2011 and updated in 2015 (MEES, 3 April 2015). According to a 9 April statement by the En...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 17
    Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017
  8. Rosatom Starts Work On New Iran Nuclear Plant, Cementing Russia’s Mena Presence

    ...pear motivated by more than just economics, with the Russian firm looking to expand its regional reach – and that of Russia – and Iran opting for a prestige project. The plant is located where Rosatom completed the Mena region’s first and, so far only, nuclear plant in 2011, the 1GW Bushehr-1 pl...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 13
    Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017
  9. Libya Plans Tobruk Power Plant, Revives Stalled Ubari Project

    ...2011 after the ouster of former dictator Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. The Ubari project – another nominally gas fired plant that will initially burn oil since no current gas supply infrastructure exists – will comprise four Siemens 160MW turbine-generators. The Libya Herald newspaper says the project is...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2017