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Morocco Diversifies Power Sources
...s started up in June 2014. Tarfaya is Africa’s largest wind farm to date, comprising 131 turbines of 2.3MW capacity each. The farm is expected to achieve a load factor of 45%, high for a wind project. GDZ Suez says Tarfaya will contribute significantly to Morocco’s target of having 42% of in...
Volume: 57Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 19 Dec 2014 -
Data Special: 2014 On Target For Record Gulf Oil Burn
...Data Special: 2014 On Target For Record Gulf Oil Burn Crude Oil Burn: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Set To Hit Record This Year (‘000 B/D) Fuel Oil Consumption: Saudi Arabia Set For Record (‘000 B/D) Total^ Gulf Oil Burn To Hit 1.5mn B/D For 2015 (‘000 B/D)...
Volume: 57Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2014 -
Turkey Advances First Nuclear Plant, Eyes New 4.4GW Project
...nd 2014 Kavakli 52 Wind 2014 Bakras* 23 Wind 2014 Samsun 600 Ga...
Volume: 57Issue: 49Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014 -
Subsidies Limit Gulf Progress On Energy Efficiency
...nsumption figures, both in per capita terms and per unit of GDP (‘energy intensity’). The International Energy Agency (IEA), in its 2014 World Energy Outlook (WEO) released last week, says Middle Eastern primary energy intensity fell by almost 1.5% a year during 2010-13. Though this fall is welcome, it is lo...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
Turkey Backs Gas, Renewables; May Take Nuclear ‘In-House’
...4Q15. The Turkish Wind Energy Association says installed wind capacity amounted to 3.58GW at the end of September 2014. This was 926MW or almost 35% higher than at the end of August 2013. Wind capacity now accounts for more than 5% of Turkey’s power capacity. The association predicts Turkey’s wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Iran Starts Work On 1GW Zanjan Plant
...xt five years. Zanjan Electricity Company head Ali Chehlamirani says the area’s demand peaked at 580MW in summer 2014, of which 73% was consumed in the industrial and agricultural sectors. New plants in Zanjan province are part of a Ministry of Energy plan to add 30GW of generating capacity na...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Eyes 2016 Start For 650MW Suez Plant
...w of 4.6bn cfd in July 2014 (see graph, MEES, 26 September). EEHC estimates Egypt’s electricity generating capacity at 30.8GW. Besides the Suez project, new capacity is also coming from the 1.95GW South Helwan thermal plant, under construction for startup in 2018. This will require 420mn cfd of ga...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
UAE Faces Power Capacity Shortfall, Targets Improved Efficiency
...stall seven power plants with total combined capacity of 9.47GW by 2021, a 33% increase on current installed capacity of 28.9GW (see table). However demand growth is set to outstrip this with current trends indicating consumption will rise 50% between 2014 and 2021 to hit 171TWh by the latter date. By...
Volume: 57Issue: 39Published at Fri, 26 Sep 2014 -
Dubai Record Generation
....692TWh in the second quarter, compared with 9.739TWh in the same period last year.” Mr Tayir says DEWA also set a new generation record in 2Q14, delivering a peak of 6.845GW compared with 6.340GW in 2013, a rise of 8.0%. “Also,” says Mr Tayir, “the recorded consumption peak in Dubai in 2014 has reached 7....
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
Turkey Completes 900MW Gas Plant As Part Of Ambitious Capacity Expansion
...nd capacity grew by 15% in the first half of 2014 alone. Wind start-ups in the first half of 2014 came at 87 sites around the country, the ministry says; construction is under way at 39 more. While many of Turkey’s current wind projects are relatively large-scale – the biggest to date is 143MW Ba...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Dubai To Spend $15Bn On 20% Capacity Hike By 2021
...UAE Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) chief executive Sa’id al-Tayir says DEWA’s capital budget for 2014-18 is Dh55.216bn ($15.03bn). DEWA plans to add three power plants totaling 1.9GW over the next five years raising DEWA’s total capacity by almost 20% to 11.56GW by the end of...
Volume: 57Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Gulf States Eye Demand Management But Progress Slow
...mpared with current global thinking. The OECD’s International Energy Agency (IEA) says Middle East governments plan to spend a total $169bn on improving energy efficiency during 2014-35 (MEES, 6 June). Yet the IEA’s recent World Energy Investment Outlook warns that “energy prices are critical to de...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Oman Ramps Up Plant Construction To Meet Rising Power Demand
...20. The company’s current seven-year outlook sees peak MIS demand reaching 9.13GW in 2020 and Salalah peak demand reaching 800MW (MEES, 11 April). 2014 Priorities OPWP says the 2GW Sur independent power producer (IPP) project is currently under construction and expected to be fully co...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
Saudi Hikes Generation Capacity, Boosts Combined Cycle Usage
...airman Salih al-Awaji says the firm plans to spend SR500bn ($130bn) adding 21 power plants totaling 20GW through 2018. The company’s current projects pipeline totals 18.26GW by this date. CCGT generation figures for 2014 will likely be boosted by SEC’s completions of a 3.92GW plant at Qurayyah, in...
Volume: 57Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2014 -
Sonelgaz Generating Capacity Up 2GW In 2013, But Finances ‘Fragile’
...spent during 2014-17 on generating and transmission capacity to keep pace with demand growth of more than 10% a year. He warned that this investment must come despite frozen electricity prices (MEES, 23 May). Mobile Supply Boost Mr Boutarfa says that Algeria’s electricity generating ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Turkey Reveals Electricity Targets, Wind Expansion Continues
...dropower 15%, wind and geothermal 12%, nuclear 11%, solar 5% and other sources 2%, according to the Anadolu news agency, citing a ministry report. State transmission company TEIAS estimates Turkish electricity consumption at 245.5TWh in 2013 and says this will rise by 4.3% in 2014 to a total 256TWh. An...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Oman Seeks 2.6GW Capacity For MIS Grid
...S peak electricity demand is expected to hit 93% of installed capacity in 2016, before the 2.6GW of new capacity can be brought online. While a 2GW gas-fired IPP at Sur is due to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2014, OPWP is looking to extend existing power purchase agreements due to expire by...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014 -
Renewables: Turkey, UAE Make Progress But MENA Investment Lags
...REGIONAL/TURKEY/UAE Turkey and the UAE made their mark on the global renewables scene last year, according to Paris-based global renewable energy think-tank REN21. The agency’s Renewables 2014 Global Status Report says Turkey added the second largest amount of geothermal generating ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
IEA Slams Weak Mideast Energy Efficiency; UAE And Saudis Step Up Efforts
...E and Saudi Arabia – major hydrocarbons resources holders as well as electricity generators – are leading the regional quest to tame surging energy demand. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reckons that global investment in energy efficiency will amount to $8 trillion during 2014-35. Of th...
Volume: 57Issue: 23Published at Fri, 06 Jun 2014 -
Aramco Targets Energy Efficiency,
...gen 0.75 Gas 2014 3 Cogen Plants 0.90 Oil/Gas 2016 Shaybah Upgrade 0.24 Gas 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014