PROJECTS: Dubai's AMEA Power commissions 50-megawatt solar power plant in Jordan

Dubai-headquartered renewable energy company AMEA Power announced on Wednesday the commissioning of its 50-megawatt (MW) Al Husainiyah solar power plant in Jordan, the company’s second operational renewable energy power plant in the country.

 

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the commercial operation date (COD) was officially achieved on 1 September 2021, AMEA Power said in a press statement.

 

The project, located in Ma’an Governorate, 200km south of Amman, is sponsored by AMEA Power, as the lead developer and majority owner (70 percent), and Jordan-based Philadelphia Solar (30 percent), and was awarded following the second round of Jordan’s renewables feed-in-tariff (FiT) programme.

 

AMEA Power said the Al Husainiyah Power Generation Company will operate the project for 20 years.

 

It said the project will reduce the equivalent of more than 3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and meet the electricity requirements of approximately 50,000 households.

 

Al Husainiyah is the first internationally financed utility scale solar park in Jordan that deploys locally manufactured PV modules with over 200,000 panels manufactured locally in Philadelphia Solar’s facility, the statement noted.

 

The project was supported with financing from European development banks, namely Netherlands-based FMO and Germany's DEG.

 

Hussain AlNowais, Chairman of AMEA Power, commented: "This is AMEA Power’s third operational power plant globally and the company’s second operational plant in Jordan. We continue to support Jordan’s ambitions to increase the share of renewables in its power mix to 30 percent by 2030, and to reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels.”

 

Including the Abour wind project commissioned in July, the company now has 100 MW of operational renewable power projects in Jordan.

 

AlNowais said the company is working to achieve financial close for solar and wind projects with a total capacity of 1,200 MW and investments of over $1 billion, in Egypt, Tunisia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.

 

AMEA Power has executed renewable energy projects in over 15 countries including Jordan, Morocco, Togo, Chad, Mali, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.

 

SDC Deal Number: 4217612158

 

(Writing by SA Kader; Editing by Anoop Menon)