Alparslan Bayraktar, Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, has said that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant is scheduled to become partially operational during 2025 and fully operational by 2028.
The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of the 1500 MW Zarraf Solar PV IPP project, located in the Al Zarraf area of the Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi.
Saudi Arabia and France have agreed to cooperate in generating hydrogen from renewable resources following a meeting between Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and French Minister for Energy Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher.
Four firms from Japan and South Korea – Sumitomo, Shikoku Electric Power, Korea Southern Power, and Korea Overseas Infrastructure and Urban Development Corp. – have jointly won a contract to build and operate a natural gas-fired power plant and a seawater desalination facility near Doha in Qatar.
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Egypt has signed two MOUs to develop 5.2 GW of renewable energy capacity in the country.
Iraq’s Ministry of Energy (MoE) and GE Vernova have jointly announced the early completion and energisation of five critical substations across Iraq.
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Corporation for Development (ICD) has signed a $16.2 million financing agreement with Sampa of Türkiye for the development and construction of a captive 21 MW solar power plant at Sampa’s facilities.
Türkiye is aiming to boost the share of renewable energy in its generation of electricity to 47.8 per cent by 2025 according to a report by the Anadolu Agency.
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.