Kuwait has invited bids for the design and construction of Shagaya 3 solar power plants with a generation capacity of 1,100 MW, as per the local reports.
As per the reprots, the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) invited companies and consortia from Kuwait and other countries to participate in the completion for the project.
The scope of the work involves “design, funding, construction, operation and maintenance” services for the project, which will sell generated electricity to the Kuwaiti Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Ministry, as per the reports.
“KAPP said it aims to attract private sector technology in the field of renewable energy, ease the financial burden of project operation on the Government, lessen reliance on fossil fuel and increase the share of renewable sources in the energy mix,” it added.
It may be noted that the Shagaya project, spanning 84 square kilometres, is approximately 100 km west of the capital Kuwait City and comprises multiple renewable technologies and grid infrastructure.
Furthermore, the Shagaya Renewable Energy Project is an ambitious Master Plan to generate approximately 3.2GW of electricity using renewable sources by 2030. The project is introduced by Kuwait Institute for Science and Research (KISR) and is part of Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) projects and includes design, financing, building, and operating the renewable energy complex in Shagaya area – west of Kuwait. The first phase of the project, which was commissioned in December 2018, includes a 50 mega-watt (MW) Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, a 10 MW Wind Farm, and a 10 MW Photovoltaic (PV) plant.
The Shagaya 50MW CSP project is the first commercial CSP plant in Kuwait and will produce 180GWh/year with a total area of 250 hectares and reduce the emission by more than 81,000 tons of CO2/year. The project also includes a 50,000kW energy storage project that uses molten salt as its storage technology.
