São Paulo – Kuwait has opened a tender for the construction of a clean energy generation plant with 70-megawatt capacity by 2016. This information was disclosed on the Arabian Business site.
Named Shagaya project, due to the desert region in which it will be installed, this is the first phase of a plan by the Gulf country to produce two gigawatts of energy by 2030. The project should cover an area of 100 square kilometres.
According to Arabian Business, Salem Al-Hajraf, head of the energy research department at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Energy, 37 companies, in a total of 107 competitors, were pre-qualified for the tender.
According to the executive, 50 megawatts should be generated from thermal solar sources and another 20 megawatts from wind and photovoltaic energy. The second phase of the project should produce 930 megawatts and the third, one gigawatt.
Kuwait, which produces some three million barrels of oil a day, is geared at clean energy sources contributing approximately 15% of energy production by 2030. Currently, the country uses 126 million barrels of oil to generate electric energy for household consumption.
*Translated by Mark Ament
