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Green Duba Power Plant is 95% Complete – SEC

Saudi Arabia accelerates its low-carbon energy plans as the state electricity company announced the 95 percent completion of the Green Duba power plant, which combined solar with combined cycle gas turbines.

 

The 605 MW project will cost SR 3.4 billion ($906.5 million).

 

The Green Duba plant is being built with GE and represents Saudi Arabia’s first integration of a solar array with a combined-cycle plant and the first introduction of condensate as a gas turbine fuel. It has the capacity to generate the equivalent power needed to supply approximately 600,000 Saudi Arabia homes for a year.

 

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has six ongoing projects at an estimated cost of SR 5.5 billion with further projects under tender and award for a further SR 1.6 billion.

 

Projects under development include the construction of a 210 km dual antenna, high-voltage line that will a cost SR 249.6 million, Saudi Electricity said.

 

The Buhairah-Tabuk substation and its link to the network will cost SR 683 million, while a smart-meter project has been fully completed.

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