#Saudi Arabia

Acwa Power and the Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), of Saudi Arabia, have signed power purchase agreements to develop a 2.1 GW solar PV plant.

Egypt: Egypt-based Al Babtain Power and Telecommunication Company – Egypt, signed a contract valued at $24 M with Elsewedy Electric T&D.

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has announced obtaining a $567.5 M credit facility.

Saudi Arabia, Jeddah: The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) has opened a research centre in search of low-carbon solutions for the energy industry.

Saudi Arabia: Linxon has won three orders worth $62 M from the Saudi Electricity Company to deliver expansion projects across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia: Alfanar Construction has been awarded a $175 M contract to build a 380 kV substation and expand three existing 380 kV substations.

Saudi Arabia, Makkah: Masar Makkah, a $27 B mega project under development in the city, is advancing work with new deal for its power requirements.

Saudi Arabia: Linxon has won an order from Samsung C&T in Saudi Arabia to engineer, procure and construct a 380 kV substation.

Saudi Arabia: The project will be procured under a build, own and operate (BOO) model.

Egypt, Cairo: A consortium of Hitachi Power Grids, SSEM and Orascom Construction has been awarded contracts for high-voltage substations and transmission lines.

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: Saudi Electricity Company has developed distribution transformers from 231/133 V to 400/230 V, for both primary voltage 33 and 13.8 kV.

Saudi Arabia: Larsen & Toubro has bagged a turnkey order for construction of a power substation in Saudi Arabia, the engineering conglomerate said in a release.

Siemens Energy has announced strengthening of the transmission network in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.

India, Mumbai: The renewables arm of Larsen & Toubro’s power transmission & distribution business has secured a turnkey EPC contract.

Saudi Arabia’s oil giant still plans to pay $75bn (£57bn) to its shareholders this year, even as the impact of the COVID-19 caused its profits to plummet.

Bahri Logistics completed the shipment of mobile stations with a voltage of 132 kV and 110 kV and a capacity of 67 MVA for Saudi Electricity Company (SEC).

Hyundai Electric and Energy Systems Co. has bagged orders to supply power transformers and gas insulated switchgears to Saudi Electricity Co. and Saudi Aramco.

Developers of IWP, which is under bidding stage, issued the RFP for 380 kV substation and 380 kV transmission line package.

REPDO has invited two of the bidders to submit best and final offers (BAFO) for the 600 MW Fasiliyah photovoltaic (PV) solar project by 19 April.

Saudi Arabia’s Repdo received bids from four groups for the Category B projects under the second round of its National Renewable Energy Programme (NREP).

India: Larsen Toubro said its construction subsidiary’s power transmission and distribution business has secured orders from clients in India and abroad.

Saudi Arabia: The largest testing laboratory in the world ever built in a single construction phase is to be completed in Dammam by 2021.

Avantha Group Company CG Power and Industrial Solutions has bagged a contract worth $14 M for setting up substations for a wind farm in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s Alfanar Group has announced that it will set up a renewable energy office in the UK, through its subsidiary ‘Alfanar Energy UK Ltd.’

Egypt is working on power connection projects with Cyprus and Greece, which will see the country’s electricity network interconnect with the power grid in Europe.

Saudi Arabia: Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), the largest power producer in Saudi Arabia, has recently allocated $34 million for setting up new transformer stations, power plants and electricity transmission networks in a bid to boost the kingdom’s power infrastructure.

Egypt, Cairo: The Egyptian parliament has approved Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s cooperation agreement, which will see the connection of the two country’s national electrical grids.

Saudi Arabia: A cargo of six transformers and auxiliary parts has been successfully delivered to sites at Tabuk and Jazan in Saudi Arabia.