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Saudi State Generator Taps $3bn Korean Funding, Eyes Large ISCC Project
...ectricity demand.” Saudi power demand has risen by 7-8%/year in recent years, Mr Shiha notes, adding that the kingdom’s peak electricity demand in 2015 surged to a new record of 62.2GW, which was about 6GW higher than the peak demand level of 2014. GLOBAL RECORD This year’s peak demand growth of ov...
Volume: 58Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2015 -
Egypt Joins MENA Nuclear Club Through 4.8gw Deal With Russia
...actors at Bushehr, under a four-plant deal. However, the deal envisages Iran making its own fuel rods, which may prove a sticking point as the deadline for lifting international sanctions against Iran draws close (MEES, 21 November 2014). Meanwhile, Jordan has signed an agreement with Rosatom for two 1G...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Egypt Tying Up Gas-Fired Finance, Looks To Advance Renewables And Nuclear
...pacity and some new plant start-ups, the Ministry of Electricity managed to deliver a daily peak record load of 29.1GW, which was 5.4% higher than the 27.6GW peak load recorded in 2014 (MEES, 21 August). The electricity ministry is looking to diversify its fuel mix away from gas and oil by en...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
IEA: Mideast Staying Reliant On Gas For Electricity, Despite Renewables
...Gas-fired plants accounted for 65% of Middle East power generating capacity in 2013, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts their share will fall to 56% by 2014. Yet the contribution of gas-fired plants to electricity generated will actually increase, from 64% in 2013 to 67% in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Algeria’s Peak Power Demand Soars, New Capacity Starting Up
...ALGERIA Algeria’s 2015 peak power demand was almost 1.5GW up on 2014. Algiers has an ambitious program to expand capacity. But, amid growing fuel shortages and a cash crunch, curbing subsidies is a better bet. Algeria’s Electricity Ministry says that the country’s electricity demand re...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
Saudi Arabia Subsidy Cuts On The Way?
...e world, with average monthly power tariffs of $0.04 per kwh, as opposed to $0.13 per kwh in the United States. The IMF calculates that the implicit cost of subsidized petroleum products and natural gas prices in Saudi Arabia was $83bn (equivalent to 11.1% of GDP) in 2014 (MEES, 23 October). Me...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Aramco Vows $100Bn Spend To Phase Out Crude-Burn, Targets Self-Sufficiency
...amco plans to spend $100bn over the next 10 years in boosting natural gas production capacity with a view to eradicating the kingdom’s direct burning of crude oil in power plants. In July 2014 Saudi crude burning reached a new peak of 899,000 b/d and during June-August this year the average burn was 86...
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
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