The multi-billion dirham development of the world's tallest solar power tower in Dubai is continuing to gather pace in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. The striking 262-metre-high construction is one of the crown jewels of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which itself is central to the UAE's [...]
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has received 4 bids from international companies for consultancy contract for the sixth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, Dubai Media Office (DMO) announced on Tuesday. The single-site solar park is the largest of its kind in the world, using [...]
Work progress in the 4th phase, which is the largest single-site project that combines Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and photovoltaic technology using the IPP model. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), inspected the work progress at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al [...]
The DEWA concentrated solar power plant in the Dubai desert reached another major milestone on 14 July 2022: the first salts were injected into the receiver designed and supplied by John Cockerill. Commissioning is continuing in order to reach 565°C at the receiver outlet. This molten salt technology, used as [...]
In this project HERLOGAS collaborates with Shanghai Electric with the melting process of 560,000 tons of salt and the preheating of the 26 storage tanks, to date HERLOGAS has successfully melted 115,000 tons of salt successfully and preheated 4 salt tanks, This melting process that we have ends SUCCESSFULLY in [...]
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that it has raised the production capacity of the first project of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park (MBR Solar) Park Phase V from 300 megawatts (MW) to 330MW. This results from using the latest solar photovoltaic bifacial technologies with Single [...]
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has inaugurated the "Noor Energy 1 Visitors Centre" in the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The 950-megawatt (MW) phase has investments totalling AED15.78 billion based on the Independent Power Producer [...]
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), announced that DEWA will add 600 megawatts (MW) of clean energy capacity using photovoltaic solar panels and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) during 2021. This will increase DEWA’s total power capacity from clean energy to 1,613 [...]
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is set to commission the world's tallest concentrated solar power (CSP) tower located within the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, in September. Standing tall at 262.44 m, the tower has a capacity of 100 MW in addition to 200 MW from parabolic trough. [...]
The Mohammad Bin Rashid Solar Park, largest single site solar park in the world, will have a capacity of 5 GW to be fully operational by 2030. With phases 1 and 2 are already online, phase 3 was inaugurated in November 2020. To reflect on its 3rd phase of 800 [...]
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced the winning tender for the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the largest single-site concentrated solar power project in the world. DEWA awarded the tender to a consortium of Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and China’s Shanghai [...]
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, inaugurated Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (Dewa’s) Innovation Centre and the 800MW third phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the largest single-site solar park in the [...]
ACWA Power has announced financial close for the 900 MW fifth phase of the giant Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, and revealed the bevy of international lenders that will be behind the $564 million facility. ACWA on Thursday announced Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank would be [...]
