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Kuwait to tender major solar plant in Q1 2018
Aug 15, 2017 10:21 AM
Kuwait is expected to issue a tender to build the estimated 1.2 billion Dibdibah solar power plant in the first quarter of 2018 a senior official said. September 7 is the deadline for companies to express...
Kuwait is expected to issue a tender to build the estimated $1.2 billion Dibdibah solar power plant in the first quarter of 2018, a senior official said.
September 7 is the deadline for companies to express interest in the 1 gigawatt project, Shukri AbdulAziz Al-Mahrous, deputy chief executive officer of planning and finance at Kuwait National Petroleum Company, said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.
The 32-sq km plant, which should be completed by the end of 2020 in Kuwait’s northwest, will save burning 5.2 million barrels of oil a year and reduce carbon emissions by 1.3 million tons annually, Al-Mahrous said.
The project is part of the country’s plans to produce 15 per cent of power from renewable energy by 2030.
Kuwait consumes a maximum of 14 GW of electricity a day, usually in the summer when temperatures can top 50 deg C. It has a capacity of 17 GW electricity.