Utilities Middle East – August 2019

CONTENTS

4 Utilities Middle East / August 2019 http://www.utilities-me.com

01

Electricity demand in

Oman to surpass 9.4GW

by 2025

The total consumption of power is

expected to reach 9,400MW by 2025

under normal circumstances

02

Veolia wins Kuwait

wastewater treatment

plant work

As per the contract, Veolia will treat and

recycle wastewater at the rate of 1,

cu m/h, and will also be responsible for

the sludge incineration unit

03

Makkah desalination

plant owned by ACWA

power starts commercial

operation

The Shuaibah Expansion II scheme,

which has the capacity to generate

250,000m^3 of water per day, began

commercial operations in May

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05 UPDATES

09 ANALYSIS

14 CONTRACTS

18 COVER FEATURE

41 PRODUCTS

42 FINAL WORD

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14

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

(DEWA) has invited consultancy com-

panies to submit their feasibility study

bids for the wind power generation

project in Hatta, in the United Arab

Emirates (UAE)

SPECIAL EDITION

ALSO THIS MONTH

08 AIRPORT SOLAR
Solar energy system
comprising 15,
photovoltaic (PV) panels
and a capacity of 5MWp
installed at Dubai Inter-
national’s Terminal 2 -
the largest at any airport
in the Middle East

25 ELECTRICAL TESTING TRENDS

The industry today realises that

building a test system requires

evaluation of expanding test

requirements and an architecture

that can last over time

14 SHUAIBAH DESAL
Abengoa has inaugurated
together with its partner
Fisia Italiampianti a re-
verse osmosis desalination
plant in Saudi’s Shuaibah
complex with a capacity of
250,000 m^3 /d a y

36 UTILITIES EMBRACE IPPS

The introduction of IPPs in the GCC

could be instrumental in meeting

rapidly rising electricity demand

through increased effi ciencies and

broader project fi nancing channels

18 DOOR TO SOLAR
UME speaks to Yellow
Door Energy, a leading dis-
tributed energy company
in the Middle East about
its expansion plans fol-
lowing a $65mn funding it
received early this year

09 NUCLEAR PROMISE
Saudi Arabia will be one
of a handful of countries
expected to receive
state-of-the-art advanced
nuclear reactors from
China and Russia, accord-
ing to a new report by the
Global Nexus Initiative

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