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Algeria Awards $4Bn EPC Contracts For Six CCGT Plants
...time to help meet summer 2014 peak demand. Renewables Plans Sonelgaz’s SKTM renewables subsidiary has also awarded China’s Yingli Solar a contract to design and install 233MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity at four separate sites, with construction expected to begin in January 2018 and to...
Volume: 56Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2013 -
DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar
...UAE DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced a total budget of Dh20.56bn ($5.55bn) for 2014, of which more than one third is intended for spending on capacity expansion projects and equipment pu...
Volume: 56Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 -
SEC Awards Revised Rabigh-2 IPP Project
...bruary). SEC has appointed Germany’s Fichtner as consultant for the Dhuba-1 ISCC, which it expected to start up in 2017. Dhuba-2 is still envisaged as an HFO-fired plant, with start-up planned for 2018. ACWA and Samsung are already building SEC’s 3.93GW Qurayyah IPP, which is due online in 2014. Qu...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Hydrocarbons Remain Key To MENA Power Expansion
...nagement contract for PP13 and PP14 to Australia’s WorleyParsons. SEC plans to award engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the plants in 2014 with a view to 2017 start-up (MEES, 3 May). In September, Korea’s Hyundai awarded France’s Alstom a €170mn contract for four 720MW steam tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Oman Plans First Solar Unit Under Rural Plan
...ar. Start-up is scheduled for June 2014. AER decreed in March that Raeco must incorporate renewables technology – either solar or wind – in each project for which it seeks authority funding. AER estimates Raeco’s total generating capacity at 282MW from 45 diesel-fired plants. Most of Oman’s ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal
...UAE RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) plans to invite bids for separate solar power and desalination plants worth a combined $450mn in a tender to be organized in 2014 by local private utility Utico. The solar plant will have 20MW capacity, wh...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Güriş Orders 53 Turbines For Wind Farms
...30 October that the projects are expected to be commissioned between late 2014 and summer 2015. The scope of work includes turbine delivery and a five-year service agreement. Siemens said that 25 turbines with a combined capacity of 77MW will be installed at the Fatma wind farm in Muğla. A to...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013 -
Shuweihat S2 Inaugurated As Abu Dhabi Expects Demand Growth
...rrently a partner in an independent power producer (IPP) project under development alongside Shuweihat S2. The Shuweihat S3 plant will have capacity to generate 1.6GW of electricity and is expected to start up in March 2014. Adwea is also studying bids for an IWPP to be built alongside an existing power and wa...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013 -
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