QatarEnergy has awarded a $630 million contract to Samsung C&T to build two solar power plants with a combined capacity of 875 MW.
ACWA Power has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy to develop a 1.5 GW wind project in the Karakalpakstan region.
The Russian state-owned company Rosatom has announced that the main construction for the fourth and final unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey has started.
Sertavul has chosen GE and Inogen to build one of the first hybrid wind and solar power projects in Turkey.
A consortium led by Acwa Power has signed a project agreement to develop a 1.1 GW wind project in Egypt, with an investment value of $1.5 billion.
Water inflow into Iranian dams has decreased by about 21 per cent since March compared with last year. Reports say that the country will face severe power shortages this year.
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and GE Gas Power have signed an MOU for GE to upgrade four existing GE 9F gas turbines at EGA’s Al Taweelah power plant in the UAE.
Egypt and the EU have held a meeting to discuss cooperation in the fields of energy, climate change, environment, and green transformation.
Wärtsilä has won a contract from Kahraba, a subsidiary of Egypt Kuwait Holding, in which Wärtsilä will supply an additional 20 MW to the existing Borg El Arab power plant.
Ali Akbar Mehrabian, Iran’s Energy Minister, has said that 6 GW of new capacity will be added to the country’s current power generation capacity before the start of peak demand in July.