The Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has announced the Pre-Qualified Bidders for the fifth round of solar projects under the National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) which is led and supervised by the Ministry of Energy.
The combined capacity of Round 5 projects is approximately 3700 MW; the projects are as follows:
- The [2000] MWac Al Sadawi IPP to be located in the Eastern province, KSA.
- The [1000] MWac Al Masa’a IPP to be located in the Hail province, KSA.
- The [400] MWac Al Henakiyah 2 IPP to be located in Madinah province, KSA.
- The [300] MWac Rabigh 2 IPP to be located in the Makkah Province, KSA.
Below is the list of companies pre-qualified for the projects (Name in alphabetical order):
- Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar
- Al Jomaih Energy & Water Co.,Ltd.,
- Alfanar Company
- B. Grimm Power Public Company Limited
- BGL Renewable Energy Systems Installation LLC
- EDF Renouvelables S.A .
- FAS Energy KSA LLC
- GEK TERNA S. A
- Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited
- ITOCHU Corporation
- JERA Co.,Inc
- Jinko Power (HK)
- Kahrabel FZE
- Korea Electric Power Corporation
- Marubeni Corporation
- Nebras Power Q.P.S.C.
- Nesma Renewable Energy
- Power Construction Corporation of China
- Samsung C&T Corporation
- Saudi Electricity Company
- SPIC Huanghe Hydropower Development Co. Ltd.
- Sumitomo Corporation
- Total Energies Renewables SAS
SPPC issued the Request for Qualification (RFQ) of NREP’s Round 5 on the 12th of November 2023. On the 5th of December 2023, SPPC received Statements of Qualification (SOQ) from 31 applicants, of which a total of 23 companies have been qualified for lead roles.
These projects are part of NREP, which aims to achieve the optimal energy mix, displacing liquid fuels in the Kingdom’s power sector and supply 50% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030.
SPPC is responsible for the predevelopment, tendering, and subsequently offtaking the Energy from the projects. To date, SPPC has awarded over 12.6 GW of renewable energy capacity under NREP.
Related: Saudi Arabia Releases RFQ for Round 5 Solar Projects with Total Capacity 3700 MW
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