At the end of June the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) closed its prequalification process for interested developers in the tender round for the Al Dur 2 Independent Water and Power Project.
After review by the authority, the project will be awarded on a build-own-operate basis, though further dates for project tenders have yet to be announced.
According to the tender document, the $1.5bn gas-fired plant is expected to have a generation capacity of 1200-1500 MW, with construction to begin in the first quarter of 2019. The aim is to commission the second phase by the end of 2020.
This new project follows the opening of the first phase of the Al Dur Independent Water and Power Project in 2012, which cost $2.1bn and involved the installation of four gas turbine and two steam turbine units with a combined capacity of 1.2 GW.
Funding secured for Alba smelter power project
The development pipeline for Bahrain’s utilities sector received another boost in recent months, with moves geared towards powering a single-site aluminium smelter at the Askar complex of state-owned Aluminium Bahrain (Alba).
In mid-August General Electric (GE) Energy Financial Services announced it had secured funding for Alba’s 1.79-GW combined-cycle facility. Swiss export credit agency SERV will provide loans for goods and services, with financing also coming from Germany’s Commerzbank, the UK’s Standard Chartered, US-based Citibank and JP Morgan, and France’s Crédit Agricole.
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