| Middle East power developments
modules for Qatar 875 MW PV plant
Under an agreement between JA Solar and Samsung C&T, JA Solar will provide more than 1.6 million DeepBlue 3.0 modules for the Qatar 875 MW PV power plant project to be built at Mesaieed/Ras Laffan Industrial City, which is expected to go into operation in 2024.
SAF from MSW in UAE
Masdar, ADNOC, bp, Tadweer (Abu Dhabi Waste Management Company) and Etihad Airways are jointly conducting a joint feasibility study on producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other products, such as renewable diesel and naphtha, in the UAE from municipal solid waste (MSW) and renewable hydrogen.
JA Solar
Financial close on $12 billion Jazan gasification and power JV
Air Products has announced financial close and transfer of the second group of assets for the $12 billion gasification and power joint venture (JV) with Aramco, ACWA Power and Air Products Qudra in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia. The JV’s purchase of this second group of assets at Jazan follows the successful asset acquisition and project financing transactions for the first group of assets, completed in late October 2021. Some minor final commissioning items are expected to be completed later this calendar year. The JV has purchased ASU, gasification, syngas cleanup, utilities and power assets from Aramco. The JV owns and operates the facility under a 25-year contract for a fixed monthly fee, with Aramco supplying feedstock to the JV, and the JV producing power, steam, hydrogen and other utilities for Aramco.
and Qudra Energy) 9% in the JV. Air Products’ total ownership position is 50.6% through 46% direct ownership and 4.6% through Air Products Qudra. The JV serves Aramco’s Jazan Refinery, a megaproject to process 400 000 barrels per day of the crude oil to produce main products such as ultra-light-sulphur diesel, gasoline, and other products.
400 000 BBL/
TPD
Built by Air Products ASU
Aramco, via its subsidiary Saudi Aramco Power Company, has a 20% share in the JV, Air Products 46%, ACWA Power 25% and Air Products Qudra (a 51/49 JV between Air Products
(Air Products/ Shell)
Power Block
Above: How it works: the Jazan JV will provide Saudi Aramco with critical supplies of power, steam, utilities and hydrogen
2 GW PV plant for Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and ACWA Power have signed power purchase agreements with a view to developing a 2060 MW PV power plant in Al Shuaibah, Makkah province, the largest facility of its kind in the Middle East to date. It is expected to achieve commercial operation by Q4 2025. The project will be jointly owned by Badeel and ACWA Power. Each company will hold a 50% equity stake through the establishment of an entity called Shuaibah Two Electrical Energy Company, a joint company dedicated to the development of the project.
Shuaibah Two Electrical Energy Company signed the power purchase agreement for the project with the Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC), the offtaker for this project, described as “a concrete representation of the energy transition in play — a giga scale development in sustainable energy that will play a key role in translating Saudi Vision 2030 goals.” Badeel and ACWA Power will build, own, and operate the Al Shuaibah 2 PV facility. Shuaibah 2 will be ACWA Power’s sixth solar energy facility in Saudi Arabia.
Badeel and ACWA Power are also developing the 1500 MW Sudair PV project; which was “the
first cornerstone renewable energy project in PIF’s programme”.
When it enters operation, Sudair PV, located in Sudair Industrial City, is poised to become one of the largest single-contracted solar PV plants in the world and the largest of its kind in Saudi Arabia. The USD 950 million build-own-operate project, which recorded a very low cost of electricity production, USD 1.239 cents/kWh, is employing bi-facial panels with tracking technology, and automated robotic cleaning systems. For Sudair, a PIF-backed consortium led by ACWA Power signed a power purchase agreement with SPPC for 25 years.
Rebuild in Iraq Above: Hartha plant
A consortium led by Mitsubishi Power has completed refurbishment of unit 1 at the Hartha thermal power plant, Basra Province, Iraq. After more than 30 years of operation, the refurbishment work ordered in 2017, called for the replacement of core components of the plant’s degraded power generation facilities (gas and oil-fired boilers and steam turbines) to restore it its original 200 MW. This is Mitsubishi Power’s second completed project at the Hartha, following refurbishment of unit 4, which
was ordered in March 2015 and completed in December 2017.
The Hartha plant was completed in 1982, with original power generation equipment supplied by Mitsubishi Power. Following successive conflicts in the region, however, the original facilities sustained partial damage as well as gradual degradation, causing the plant to operate at a reduced capacity of 60%. Funding for the unit 1 project, similarly to the unit 4 project, was provided via Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
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