The power generation capacity is divided into two industrial locations having 417 MW plant and 458 MW plant and together they would cover an area of about 10 sq km. The project will fetch an investment of QR 2.3 billion. State-owned petroleum company QatarEnergy has awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the industrial cities solar power project (IC Solar) to South Korean construction and engineering giant Samsung C&T. Under the contract, Samsung C & T will set up two photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants with a combined capacity of 875 MW. The plants will be established in…
Author: Saur News Bureau
The solar power project has been operational since June and it has a green energy generation capacity of 800 MW. It will help supply Qatar’s 10 per cent of power needs and avoid 26 million tons of carbon dioxide emission. Qatar’s first solar power plant has been inaugurated by Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. The next FIFA football World Cup will be organised in the Arab country. The organisers of the World Cup have informed that the newly inaugurated solar power project will supply clean energy for the football-match stadiums. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, the…
Asia Brewery Inc. (ABI), a diversified beverage company based in the Philippines, has given TotalEnergies ENEOS a contract for a 13.8 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) system power plant on one of its manufacturing plants in the country. About 24% of the facility will be powered by renewable energy thanks to this technique. One of the biggest rooftop solar installations in the Philippines on a single site was constructed using the no-CAPEX business model. The PV system will produce around 20,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually with over 24,000 solar panels installed, resulting in significant cost savings for ABI and…
Global clean and renewable energy player Mainstream Renewable Power has announces the signing of a joint venture agreement with Aboitiz Power Corporation via its subsidiary Aboitiz Renewables to initially deliver the 90 MW Libmanan onshore wind project that is located in the Camarines Sur Province of Philippines. Mainstream Renewable Power is a global renewable energy company majority-owned by Aker Horizons. Aboitiz Renewables is one of the Philippines’ leading providers of renewable energy. As per the official statement of Mainstream, the joint venture, which harnesses the combination of Mainstream’s global renewables development expertise and AboitizPower’s local expertise and business network, will…
Singapore’s WEnergy Global, jointly with Maharlika Clean Power Holdings and Clean Grid Partners, collectively referred to as the Maharlika Consortium, through their Special Purpose Vehicle, Archipelago Renewables Corporation, has signed a Qualified Third Party (QTP) Service Contract to energize over 7,100 households and 300 small local businesses through 16 microgrids spread over 14 barangays in seven municipalities across the service area of the Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) in Palawan, Philippines. The consortium emerged as the winner of the recently concluded QTP tender of PALECO to support its mandate for total rural electrification in the province, meeting the stringent eligibility and…
America’s electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Group has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Government of Saudi Arabia, under which the Government will purchase up to 100,000 vehicles over a ten-year period. Saudi Arabia has made an initial commitment to purchase 50,000 vehicles and an option to purchase up to an additional 50,000 vehicles over the same period. Lucid Group claims that this sets new standards with the longest-range, fastest-charging electric car in the market. Lucid Group clearly positions itself in the luxury category for electric cars. Peter Rawlinson, Lucid’s CEO and CTO, said, “Delivering up to 100,000…
Iran’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (SATBA) has released data indicating that the share of solar power plants in Iran has reached 49 percent. Based on the data, the total capacity of Iran’s renewable power plants is 844.59 megawatts (MG) at the end of November 2020. The solar surge should be no surprise considering the huge growth solar has seen on the back of a faster drop in prices, worldwide. Wind power plants with a capacity of 303.18 MW hold second place with 36 percent in the country’s renewable energy sector. Small hydropower plants with 105.65 MW accounted for…
Morocco, which has planned some ambitious renewable energy projects to take advantage of its geographical location, has awarded a contract for the development of two solar power projects to AMEA Power – a UAE energy company. The two solar projects will be part of the first phase of Noor PV II Programme. This programme will feature multiple sites of solar PV development. The total capacity of the Noor PV II Programme will be 330 MW. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) and the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development had issued a large international tender under which AMEA…
Solar Philippines Nueva plans to expand its 500 MW system currently under construction on the northern Filipino island of Luzon with a 3.5 GW solar farm. Solar Philippines Nueva is the listed subsidiary of PV project developer, Solar Philippines, which is the largest solar energy provider in the Philippines. With the money raised through various capital raising, Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC) intends to purchase an additional 2,500 hectares for this massive PV cluster in the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Bulacan. These included an asset-for-share exchange with parent firm Solar Philippines as well as a previously disclosed stock…
Masdar will be developing these solar projects in the four governorates of Iraq. The present 1GW solar power project bagged by Masdar is a part of three solar power projects that the Iraq government agreed to last year with RE developers. All three will have a combined capacity of 2.75 MW. The renewable energy party has finally arrived in Iraq, one of the last major oil exporters to adopt solar in a big way. In an effort to decarbonize the economic system of the country and mitigate the climate change risks, the country has finally been bidding out contracts for…