Utilities

UAE Commissions 2 Power Transmission Stations at US$288m

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned two key transmission stations with a combined capacity of 400 kilovolts. The total cost would be Dh 1.06 billion (US$288.6 million) said DEWA managing director and CEO H.E Saeed Al Tayer. "The first station was commissioned at Warsan area at a total cost of over Dh 405 million while the other was established at the Gardens at a value of Dh 655 million," he said. "The two stations, part of DEWA's strategy, will contribute to boost DEWA's power capacity and efficiency of transmission networks from generation to consumer centres. At the end of the day, the two stations will provide stable power supply."

Iran-Syria-Turkey-Iraq Power Network To Be Formed

Iran's energy minister announced that a quadripartite electricity network will be formed among Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. Parviz Fattah said that the energy ministers of the four countries will soon hold a meeting in this regard in Baghdad. With the power generating capacity of 120,000 MW, the four countries are considered as powerful countries in the world in the field of generating energy. Fattah went on saying that Iran is establishing two thermal power plants in Iraq one with the neighboring country's investment and the other one as a joint venture.

Mott MacDonald client puts GBP6.1bn Dubai power project on hold

UK consultant Mott MacDonald has been hit by the decision to put a GBP6.1bn power project it is working on in Dubai on hold The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is understood to have deferred the tendering process on the Hassyan power complex by at least eight months. The power and desalination project, which is divided into two phases, plans to have a combined capacity of 3,000MW of power and 200 million gallons of water per day. Mott MacDonald is the lead consultant for the first phase and German engineering firm Lahmeyer is handling the second.

ABB wins $400 million power order in Kuwait

Swiss-Swedish engineering company ABB has won a $400 million order for three new substations to improve Kuwait's electrical transmission grid, it said, booking its largest order in more than a year. ABB will design, supply, install, test and commission the substations, which will increase transmission voltage from 300 kilovolts (kV) to 400, strengthening the grid's reliability and capacity to meet rising demand for electricity

KEPCO picked top bidder for Saudi power plant

State-run Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) has been named the top-ranked bidder in a race to win a $2.5 billion fuel-oil power plant project in Saudi Arabia. A consortium -- including KEPCO, which supplies nearly all of the power used in South Korea, and Saudi's ACWA Power International -- has been picked as the preferred bidder. The Rabigh project is to build the 1,204 megawatt fuel oil power plant in the city of Rabigh by 2013, and operate the unit until 2033.

Qatar unveils $500m solar power plant plan

Plans have been revealed to build a major solar energy plant in Qatar to generate at least 100MW of solar power within five years. More than $500 million is to be invested by Qatar Foundation in a plant to make polysilicon, the much sought-after raw material for solar cells. The project will take only two years and the hi-tech, modular plant is to be built in Europe by a leading manufacturer and put together in Qatar on site.