- AMEA Power Commissions Al Husainiyah solar power plant in Jordan.
- The project will meet the electricity requirement of approx. 50,000 households.
Dubai’s headquartered renewable energy company AMEA Power made known on Wednesday the commissioning of its 50MW Al Husainyah solar power plant in Jordan, its second operational renewable energy power plant in the country.
”Notwithstanding the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the commercial operation date was officially achieved on 1st 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 per cent), and Jordan-based Philadelphia Solar (30 per cent), 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 would operate the project for 20 years. The project aims to reduce the equivalent of more than 3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and meet the electricity requirements of approximately 50,000 households.
The statement noted that 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.
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 per cent by 2030 and to reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels.”
Including the Abour wind project commissioned in July, AMEA Power 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.