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Emirates Water and Electrical Energy Co. (EWEC) is now accepting proposals for a 1.5 GW photo voltaic challenge in Abu Dhabi. The tender is open to the 19 bidders who completed the qualification course, following an expression of curiosity stage final 12 months. The chosen developer or consortium will signal a long-term energy buy settlement (PPA) with the Abu Dhabi-based utility.
EWEC has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to builders and consortia that expressed curiosity in growing a 1.5 GW photo voltaic challenge within the Al Khazna space of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.
The tender is open to bidders who completed the qualification course of following an expression of curiosity stage that began in September 2023. EWEC stated that 27 corporations and consortia have submitted expressions of curiosity, with 19 qualifying for the RfP stage, which supplies potential bidders with detailed necessities and proposed technical parameters for the challenge.
The Kazhna PV challenge will contain the event, financing, development, operation, upkeep, and possession of the plant and related infrastructure. The chosen developer or consortium will come clean with 40% of the power, with the remaining fairness to be held not directly by the Abu Dhabi authorities.
They will even enter right into a long-term PPA with EWEC. The PPA can be structured as a vitality buy settlement, whereby EWEC will solely pay for the web electrical vitality provided by the plant.
As soon as totally operational, the Khazna challenge – together with the Noor Abu Dhabi, Al Dhafra PV, and Al Ajban photo voltaic installations – will elevate EWEC’s complete put-in PV capability to five.5 GW. Khazna alone is anticipated to generate sufficient electrical energy for roughly 160,000 properties throughout the United Arab Emirates.
“As our fourth utility-scale photo voltaic challenge, Khazna Photo voltaic PV is a big milestone in our deliberate growth of recent photo voltaic PV capability between 2027-2037 to steer the UAE’s transition to a sustainable future in alignment with the nation’s Web Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative,” stated EWEC Chief Government Officer Othman Al Ali.
Responses to the RFP are anticipated in the third quarter of these 12 months. EWEC stated it should then maintain a public occasion to substantiate the businesses and consortia that submit proposals.
