Ministry of Energy, Saudi Arabia mentioned in a statement that, The Saudi Power Procurement Company (the main buyer) announced the launch of five new projects for competition to produce electricity using renewable energy, as part of the fourth phase of the projects of the National Renewable Energy Program, which is supervised by the Ministry of Energy.
These projects, with a total capacity of 3300 MW, include three projects to produce power by wind energy and two projects to produce power by solar energy.
The total capacity of Wind energy production projects for this phase is 1800 MW, distributed as follows:
- Yanbu Project with a capacity of 700 MW
- Al-Ghat Project with a capacity of 600 MW
- Waad Al Shamal Project with a capacity of 500 MW
The capacity of production projects from Solar energy amounts to 1500 MW, distributed as follows:
- Al Hanakia Project with a capacity of 1100 MW
- Tabarjal Project with a capacity of 400 MW
The launch of these projects within the National Renewable Energy Program comes as part of the Kingdom’s objectives of the “Saudi Vision 2030, statement mentioned.
