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Key 2016 Power Start-Ups Oil & Gas-Fired Despite Increasing Renewable Focus
...me companies have also been contracted to build the 200MW Noor-2 and 150MW Noor-3 plants at the same location, for start-up in 2017. In Jordan, three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are scheduled to start up at Ma’an: the Shams Ma’an joint venture is building a 52.5MW plant, while Norway’s Scatec So...
Volume: 58Issue: 52Published at Wed, 23 Dec 2015 -
Jordan Powers Ahead With Renewables Expansion
...mpany plans to add another HRSG on at the Samra plant, which will add 75MW of capacity by the end of 2017 without burning any more gas. SOLAR NEXT Tafila is Jordan’s first utility-scale renewables project, and is a milestone on the kingdom’s path to reduce its heavy reliance on imported oil and ga...
Volume: 58Issue: 51Published at Fri, 18 Dec 2015 -
Egypt Inaugurates 200mw Gebel El Zeit Wind Farm
...ncluded in December 2010. Completion of the farm raises Egypt’s claimed wind capacity to 950MW. NREA has awarded a €220mn turnkey contract for another Gebel El Zeit wind farm, a 220MW project to be built by Spain’s Gamesa for start-up in the second half of 2017 (MEES, 24 April). Egyptian Electricity Tr...
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015 -
Dubai Expands Solar Plans But Keeps Faith In Coal
...rrent 9.66 Planned Additions: Solar Park 2 (2017) Solar 0.2 Jebel Ali M Expansion (2018) Gas 0....
Volume: 58Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2015 -
Egypt Joins MENA Nuclear Club Through 4.8gw Deal With Russia
...pco E&C has started construction of the containment building for the last of its four 1.4GW reactors at Barakah. State nuclear firm ENEC says it is on schedule to start up one plant per year during 2017-20 (MEES, 25 September). Iran signed a deal with Rosatom to press ahead with two further 1GW re...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Egypt Tying Up Gas-Fired Finance, Looks To Advance Renewables And Nuclear
...s-fired turbines will be installed in three 4.8GW combined cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) plants, at Beni Suef, Burullus and a planned new capital city 45km east of Cairo. These will be built by Egyptian firms Elsewedy Electric and Orascom Construction for start-up during 2017-20. Each plant will co...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
Aramco Vows $100Bn Spend To Phase Out Crude-Burn, Targets Self-Sufficiency
...p (Rawec) Oil 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Gas 1....
Volume: 58Issue: 43Published at Fri, 23 Oct 2015 -
Qatar Power Demand Tops 7GW; QEWC Advances 2.5GW Plant
...ay ahead of the demand growth curve in the medium term by building two new power and desalination plants: a 2.52GW, 618,000 m3/day plant is due online at Umm Al Haul in 2017, and a 2GW, 655,000 m3/day plant is proposed at Ras Laffan, for potential start-up in 2018. QEWC has informed the Qatar Ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
Saudi Electricity Demand To Rise 32% By 2020, Says ECRA
...wec Exp (Rawec) Oil 0.16 2016 Shuqaiq (SEC) Oil 2.64 2017 PP13 (SEC) Gas 1....
Volume: 58Issue: 40Published at Fri, 02 Oct 2015 -
UAE Seeks Solar Bidders As Nuclear And Coal Plans Advance
...port says Dubai’s achievement of “the lowest solar price ever achieved worldwide” suggests solar costs are “poised to decrease even further.” Phase-2 of Dubai’s solar park recently reached financial close and is scheduled for start-up by April 2017. (MEES, 24 July). PV modules for phase-2 will be pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 39Published at Fri, 25 Sep 2015 -
Israel Powergen Capacity Nears 17GW With Completion Of Haruvit CCGT
...rael’s Noy Fund started construction in June for 2017 start-up. The second phase of Ashalim will be a 110MW CSP plant, for which Spain’s Abengoa and Israel’s Shikun and Binui recently announced financial close with a view to 2018 start-up. Details of a solar PV plant to be built at the same site have ye...
Volume: 58Issue: 37Published at Fri, 11 Sep 2015 -
Turkey Coal Power Boost
...pendence on imported gas for power generation (see p27). However, while Turkey has large coal resources, gas and renewables projects dominate its medium-term development program. Apart from a 510MW coal-fired plant being built by China’s HEI at Soma for start-up in 2017, plans for further coal ca...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
UAE’s RAK Plans Privately Financed Desalination
...pacity to desalinate 100,000 m3/day of water and store 450,000 m3. Construction will begin next month, with first desalination scheduled for June 2017 and full-scale operation in 2018. Utico says water will initially be provided to RAK and nearby areas and to other parts of the UAE as output in...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Powers Ahead To Supply Record As New Capacity Comes Online
...nerators and a steam turbine set with a combined capacity of 340MW. Ansaldo says the plant conversion will require 24 months to complete from the signing of the contract, which suggests completion in late 2017 or early 2018. FUELS: “TEMPORARY GAP” Minister of Petroleum Sharif Isma’il told a gas ma...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Powers Ahead With Electricity Expansion
...ll cost €100mn ($110mn) to build and is scheduled for start-up in 2017. Edison, like all foreign oil and gas producers in Egypt, has suffered delayed payments in recent years. But the company says recent normalization of payments by EGAS has persuaded it to start building a third production pl...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 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 -
Dubai Announces Financial Close For 200MW Solar Unit
...lar photovoltaic (PV) plant is being developed as an independent power producer (IPP) project by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Spain’s TSK, with start-up expected by April 2017 (MEES, 30 January). DEWA chief executive Sa’id al-Tayir says the solar park is “one of the largest renewable energy pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Lines Up Further Gas-Fired Capacity, Readies Renewables Tender
...18) 1.95 Gas Beni Suef (2017-20)^ 4.80 Gas Burullus (2017-20)^ 4.80 Gas New Capital City (2017-20)^ 4....
Volume: 58Issue: 29Published at Fri, 17 Jul 2015 -
Oman Turns To Sun For EOR And Rural Electricity
...heme at Amal field in 2010, producing 50 m3/d of steam. This 7MW plant will continue operating once the full-scale development is completed. The project will break ground this year, with start-up of the first glasshouse module due in 2017. The finished plant will comprise 36 glasshouses, which will be...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Adds To Solar Plans, Looks To Fund Massive Power Expansion
...Fuel Mahmoudya (2015) 0.33 Gas Siemens (turbines, 2017-20) 2.00 Wind Damietta West* (2015) 0.25 Ga...
Volume: 58Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2015