Middle East and Africa Renewables Deal of the Year: DEWA Solar Advising the Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority on its 800MW solar PV multi-phase project, the third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
Examples include the USD 0.073 / kWh bid announced by the Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) for a 700 MW plant at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park (DEWA, 2017) and the Port Augusta CSP project in Australia, at around USD 0.06 / kWh.
Strategic Partners were the Climate Leadership Council, Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Indonesia Biofuels Producer Association (Aprobi), NextGen America and the US Climate Action Centre.
This is described by the CEO of Dubai's
electricity and water authority as the lowest LCOE in the world.
«Our focus on renewable energy generation has led to a drop in prices worldwide and has lowered the price of solar power bids in Europe and the Middle East,» said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA).
With the recent announcement of the Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) 700MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants which represents the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, having been announced at a globally - competitive levelised tariff of 7.3 US cents / kWh (1.0 ZAR / kWh) awarded to a consortium led by Acwa Power (a Saudi Arabian Power and Desalinated Water Company), the price of CSP plants are clearly dropping drastically and are now competitive with other conventional technologies.
The Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority has begun work on a concentrated solar power project that it says will generate 1,000 MW by 2030.
Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with one of the largest shipyard's in the Middle East to share its expertise in solar power.
Not exact matches
Virgin Islands officials initially weighed bringing in about 50 stateside workers to boost the local
Water and Power
Authority in the race to restore
electricity, Bloomberg said.
The various Utility companies including the Ghana
Water Company Limited (GWCL), Volta River
Authority (VRA),
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)
and the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) are looking for a more than 200 % increment on tariffs.
The Gili islands have never been known for their consistent supply of
electricity or fresh clean
water, That should all change this season as PLN
and a local
water company have finally been given the go ahead by local
authorities... State
electricity company PLN plans an undersea cable network to supply
electricity to three tourist -LSB-...]
The Gili islands have never been known for their consistent supply of
electricity or fresh clean
water, that should all change this season as PLN
and a local
water company have finally been given the go ahead by local
authorities... State
electricity company PLN is creating an undersea cable network to supply
electricity to three...
The Gili islands have never been known for their consistent supply of
electricity or fresh clean
water, that should all change this season as PLN
and a local
water company have finally been given the go ahead by local
authorities...
«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity
and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of
electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy
Authority and Ministries of Industry
and Commerce, Geothermal Development
and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar
water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21,
and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).
Akin Gump is acting as legal advisor to ADWEC
and its parent, the Abu Dhabi
Water &
Electricity Authority (ADWEA), in the development
and financing of the project.