Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has invited developers and developer consortiums to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to develop a new Solar PV IPP to be located in the Al Dhafra region in Al Zarraf, Abu Dhabi.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has announced that it has won an order from Samsung C&T Corporation Saudi Arabia to supply its M501JAC hydrogen-ready gas turbine for a new industrial steam and electricity cogeneration plant project in Saudi Arabia.
ACWA Power has secured $2.6 billion in financing for the construction in Saudi Arabia of three large-scale solar PV power plants totalling 5.5 GW.
QatarEnergy has announced plans to develop a new 2 GW solar power project, to be built in the Dukhan area, approximately 80 km west of Doha, Qatar’s capital city.
Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian has said that six major power plant units have come back on line after going through overhaul to meet the rising demand for electricity in the coming weeks.
GE Vernova has secured an order for six 7HA.03 gas turbines and two 7W.03 gas turbines from the EPC company SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction (SEPCOIII) for two new power plants in Saudi Arabia.
Siemens Energy will build the Taiba 2 and Qassim 2 CCGT power plants in Saudi Arabia, along with a 25-year long-term maintenance agreement with a total value of $1.5 billion, and a combined capacity of almost 4 GW.
Massive power cuts affected large areas of Kuwait on 19 June as temperatures across the country reached 52°C, leading to a rise in power consumption that exceeded supply capacity.
Rystad Energy, a Norwegian energy intelligence company, has reported that solar energy is set for significant growth in the Middle East.
Alparslan Bayraktar, Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, said that the country had broken records for solar and wind power generation in April.