4 main Japanese and Korean vitality corporations have collectively gained the rights to construct and function a pure gas-fired energy plant and a seawater desalination facility close to Doha in Qatar.
Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corp. on Nov. 26 introduced it’s going to lead the group, which incorporates Japan’s Shikoku Electrical Energy together with Korea Southern Energy and Korea Abroad Infrastructure & City Improvement Corp., by means of a global tender organized by Qatar Common Electrical energy and Water Corp., referred to as Kahramaa. Sumitomo, representing the 4 corporations, signed a long-term energy and water sale settlement with Kahramaa for technology from a 2,400-MW pure gas-fired energy station, together with a 495,000 tons/day desalination plant.
The ability and water vegetation, presently referred to as Facility E, might be constructed on the positioning of an outdated energy plant about 16 miles south of Doha, Qatar’s capital, within the Ras Abu Fontas space.
Sumitomo on Tuesday mentioned the brand new energy plant “will make use of high-efficiency fuel generators that eat much less fuel and emit decrease ranges of CO2 and different pollution, contributing to steady vitality provides and decarbonization efforts in Qatar.” The group mentioned the federal government of Qatar additionally will have a look at plans for carbon seize and storage on the web site to additional scale back emissions of CO2.
The Qatar undertaking is the second collaboration between Sumitomo Corp. and Shikoku Electrical for an abroad undertaking. The 2 teams beforehand joined for the Hamriyah Unbiased Energy Mission in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. That 1,800-MW combined-cycle plant got here on-line in October 2023. The Hamriyah facility options three 600-MW GE Vernova 9HA.01 fuel generators that energy three H84 turbines. The station additionally is supplied with three STFs-D650 reheat steam generators that energy three A74 turbines.
The Doha plant is the primary energy undertaking in Qatar for Sumitomo, and the second for Shikoku Electrical, which additionally was a part of the two,730-MW Ras Laffan C Water and Energy Mission in Al Khawr. Ras Laffan was commissioned in Might 2011.
Sumitomo has beforehand managed private-sector unbiased energy initiatives (IPP) and unbiased water and energy initiatives (IWPP) within the Center East, together with amenities in Kuwait and the UAE. The Doha plant would be the sixth IPP/IWPP undertaking within the Center East for Shikoku Electrical.
Qatar is among the many nations that ratified the Paris Settlement on local weather. The nation’s Nationwide Renewable Vitality Technique, issued by Kahramaa, requires the retirement of older energy technology stations and building of latest pure gas-fired amenities. The technique additionally requires extra solar energy, together with carbon seize, utilization, and storage.
Officers have mentioned electrical energy demand in Qatar is predicted to extend practically 60% by 2040 in comparison with 2021 ranges.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
