Abu Dhabi’s Masdar confirms participation in 3.3 GW Round 4 of Saudi renewable energy programme

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar confirms participation in 3.3 GW Round 4 of Saudi renewable energy programme

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, with its partners, will participate in the upcoming 3.3 gigawatts (GW) Round 4 of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Programme (NREP) spearheaded by the Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC), a report by the UAE’s official news agency WAM said.

The report announcing Masdar’s opening of an office in the Kingdom said SPPC’s Round 4 tender will include three wind power plants with a combined capacity of 1.8 GW (Yanbu 700 MW; Al Ghat 600 MW; Waad Al Shamal 500 MW) and two solar parks totalling 1.5 GW (Al Hinakiyah 1,100 MW; Tubarjal 400 MW) to be developed using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model.

Masdar is a consortium partner with EDF Renewables and Nesma Company in the 400-megawatt (MW) Dumat Al Jandal Wind Farm, which began commercial operation starting in the fourth quarter of 2021.

The same consortium is also developing the 300MW South Jeddah Noor Solar Photovoltaic Power plant, located in Third Jeddah Industrial City. The project is scheduled to start commercial operations in 2023.

NREP’s Round 3 consisted of four solar photovoltaic (PV) IPP plants with an aggregate capacity of 1,200 MW.

Round 2 targeted the development of 6 solar PV IPPs with a total capacity of about 1.47 GW