Saudi Arabia?s state electricity utility Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has issued a call for tenders for 100MW solar PV projects
The two solar farms, each amounting to 50MW of PV capacity, are to be located in northern regions of Al-Jouf and Rafha.
Despite announcing bold clean power ambitions last year, Saudi Arabia has since scaled back its plans to generate 9.5GW of renewable energy by 2030, and reduced a plan to meet 50 per cent of its energy with renewables by 2040 to just 10 per cent.
This shift, according to country?s energy minister Khalid Al-Falih, is predicated on an embrace of gas-fired generation and production and has dismayed clean energy advocates in the region.
According to Reuters, each project could attract investment of between US$100mn to US$120mn, thus triggering greater public-private partnerships of the sort required to boost solar development in the Kingdom.
