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Coal: Dubai Starts Work On 2.4GW Plant, Part Of 21GW Mena Expansion
...rada Morocco Sepco III 0.32 1.45 Under construction, start-up 2017 Safi Mo...
Volume: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Egypt Sparks Up First Megaproject But Scales Back Expansion Plans
...mbined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant being built by Egypt’s Elsewedy 115km south of Cairo at Beni Suef. The plant’s generating units will be connected to the grid over the period 2017-20. The Beni Suef plant will comprise eight 600MW generating units, each made up of a 400MW gas turbine/generator an...
Volume: 59Issue: 49Published at Fri, 09 Dec 2016 -
Oil-Poor Arab States Get Multilateral Finance Boost For Renewables
...pe that will continue to grow,” EBRD power chief Nandita Parshard says. The first project under the SPREF program will be the 120MW Khalladi wind farm near Tangier, Morocco. Khalladi is being developed by Saudi private energy developer Acwa Power for start-up in late 2017. Morocco currently has 79...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Morocco Awards Three PV Projects, As Mena Gets Serious About Solar
...ll as 80MW at Laayoune and 20MW at Boujdour in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. Construction will begin in Q1 2017 and take 12 months. Acwa says the Noor PV1 electricity price is US¢4.8/kWh. This lowest bid is significantly higher than the ¢2.99/kWh for the 800MW third phase of the 5GW solar pa...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Saudi Electricity Plans 5.4GW IPP
...l 2.80 2016 Dhuba-1* (SEC IPP) Gas/Solar 0.61 2017 Cogen x 3 (Ar...
Volume: 59Issue: 46Published at Fri, 18 Nov 2016 -
Oman Power: Foot Off The Gas Despite Khazzan Progress
...source is subject to final approval of the Government of Oman and BP – both expected in 2017…Subject to final approval, Khazzan Phase 2…is expected to come onstream around 2020,” BP says. Khazzan Phase 1 “is on track to deliver first gas near the end of 2017,” Oil Minister Muhammad al-Rumhy says. As of...
Volume: 59Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2016 -
Dubai Adds CSP, Hydro To Renewables Mix; Northern Emirates Eye Coal
...60 Dewa (2017) Solar Park 2 (PV) 0.20 Sewa (2017) Hamriyah Exp (Gas) 0.18 Enec (2017...
Volume: 59Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2016 -
Jordan 200mw Solar Deal
...esel 20 Sepco (2017) Samra HRSG^ 75 Sepco Samra Ga...
Volume: 59Issue: 44Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016 -
Iraq’s Tentative Gas Gains Insufficient To Stem Oil Burn Growth
...ak of 677mn cfd. The company aims to reach 700mn cfd by end-2016. Iraq had hoped to bring flaring rates down to zero by 2017, but it is now targeting 2020. When asked by MEES on the prospects of this being achieved, Mr Husain admitted that funding problems at BGC are delaying progress at key pl...
Volume: 59Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2016 -
Oman Plans Big Solar Project
...e southern Dhofar governorate near the border with Yemen and plans 7MW more in small projects. Raeco aims to develop 90MW of wind and solar capacity by 2020 and has awarded UAE’s Masdar a $200mn contract to build a 50MW wind farm at Harweel in the Dhofar region for start-up in 2017 (MEES, 10 Ju...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Saudi Electricity Seeks Outside Funds For 5.4GW Capacity Hike
...l 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Ga...
Volume: 59Issue: 40Published at Fri, 07 Oct 2016 -
Jordan Secures Finance For 50MW Solar Project, Brings 43MW Online
...oposed 49.5MW Daehan wind farm at Tafila, for which Korea’s Daelim and Kosco have signed a power purchase agreement with Jordan’s Ministry of Energy. The partners aim to begin construction in 2017 for start-up in 2019. SOLAR START-UPS Jordan has recently started up its first solar plants, in th...
Volume: 59Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2016 -
Abu Dhabi Looks To Break Dubai’s Solar Cost Record
...wea aims to sign a power purchase agreement with the winning consortium in the first quarter of 2017. While Adwea did not list the bidders, reports say Japan’s Marubeni and China’s Jinko Solar submitted the lowest bid. Although Adwea was the first Middle Eastern utility to develop a large-scale so...
Volume: 59Issue: 38Published at Fri, 23 Sep 2016 -
Dubai Plans Gas-Fired Expansion As UAE Pursues Powergen Diversity
...ec recently performed structural integrity tests on Barakah-1, which will be the first of the reactors to be brought online. Enec originally intended Barakah-1 to start up in 2017, but this target has slipped. The agency now says the four plants are scheduled to be fully operational in 2020. Enec sa...
Volume: 59Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2016 -
SEC Identifying Sites For Solar Plants, Sanctions 300MW Renewables Program
...CC 50 2017 SEC Waad Al-Shamal (1.39GW) ISCC 50 2018 SE...
Volume: 59Issue: 33Published at Fri, 19 Aug 2016 -
Morocco Wind Farm Award
...the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). EBRD and Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur (BMCE) provided €126mn ($140.9mn) in equal tranches (MEES, 13 November 2015). Vestas says that delivery of the turbines is scheduled for the second quarter of 2017, with commissioning ex...
Volume: 59Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2016 -
Egypt Looks To Rally Renewables Investors, As Oil Products Imports Soar
...mesa, 2017) 0.22 Wind Gebel El Zeit (Gamesa, 2017) 0.16 Wind Under ne...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Algeria Brings Combined Capacity To 17.68GW Despite $10bn Funding Deficit
...ich have choked off investment in new oil and gas exploration and development. Sonatrach chief executive Amine Mazouzi has declared that “the period of stagnation is behind us” and presented gas production forecasts of 141.3 bcm in 2017 rising to 165 bcm in 2010 – presumably including reinjected vo...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Oman To Add 4.8GW To Grid By 2022 As Electricity Demand Forecast To Rise 74%
...MW of capacity by 2018. Raeco also operates 91MW of diesel capacity in Musandam and is building the 120MW gas-fired Musandam IPP for completion in early 2017. OMAN ELECTRICITY DEMAND PROJECTIONS (GW...
Volume: 59Issue: 29Published at Fri, 22 Jul 2016 -
Saudi Electricity Taps China For $1.5bn, Takes Expansion Funding To $33bn
...ant, due online in 2017, which is being built by Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, incorporating turbines and generators from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MEES, 11 December 2015). ICBC’s loan is not linked to a specific project, and is likely an opportunistic investment by China at a time wh...
Volume: 59Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2016