Dewa to tender third phase of solar park

Dubai: The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority will launch a tender to build the third phase of the Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in six weeks, its chief executive said on Monday.

“Within a short period, we will open the tender, within a month and a half,” Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference.

“The award of this contract will be this year, according to the programme, in June — 800 megawatts will be awarded.”

Dewa said in September it would start accepting expressions of interest for the plant. Al Tayer did not give a figure for the cost of the project. Dubai doubled the capacity of the second phase of the solar park from 100 MW to 200 MW after receiving the lowest-ever recorded cost for solar power in a tender won by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Spain’s TSK. The emirate’s strategic plan envisions 7 per cent of power generation from renewables by 2020 and 15 per cent by 2030.