Power & Water

The Saudi energy minister has announced a new 59GW plan for renewable energy. But only two utility-scale projects have been awarded so far.

The Saudi energy ministry’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office (Repdo) has awarded a 400MW wind farm project, to be...

Tunisia has awarded 120MW of wind projects worth TD400mn ($135mn) to four European firms (see table). This brings to...

The UAE’s Emirates Water & Electricity Authority (Ewec) plans to begin tendering in the first half of 2019 for...

Saudi private energy developer Acwa Power is overseeing power generation projects with a combined 15.5GW of capacity and a...

Damascus has ambitious plans to hike gas output to 1bn cfd by 2023 to meet growing post-war power demand. Stretched gas processing capacity may prove the limiting factor. Assad’s erstwhile GCC foes are grudgingly mending fences with the Syrian regime.

Jazan and Yanbu-3 start-ups are advancing slower than planned.

Saudi state utility Water & Electricity Company (WEC) has awarded Riyadh-based private power and water developer Acwa Power a...

With peak demand creeping up to installed capacity Tunisia is in a race against time to beef up its powergen fleet. Renewables are core to plans but are well behind.

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) shareholders voted on 18 December in favor of the formation of a power generation subsidiary...

UAE sovereign wealth funds Mubadala of Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s Dubal Holding, equal partners in Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA)...

Germany’s Siemens this week completed work on the last two of eight massive 500-kV substations which form an integral...