- Qatar Energy awards EPC contract for 875MW utility-scale solar power project to Samsung South Korea.
Qatar Energy has announced that its affiliate QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions has awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its Industrial Cities (IC) solar power project to South Korea’s Samsung C&T.
The approximately 2.3 billion Qatari riyal ($632 million) IC Solar project, comprising two large-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants with a combined capacity of 875MW, is Qatar’s second utility-scale solar project following the 800 MWp Al Kharsaa Solar PV Independent Power Plant (IPP), which is currently under construction.
The firm, in a press statement, noted that the project’s power generation capacity is strategically distributed between the two main industrial cities in Qatar, Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) and Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC).
The MIC plant will have a capacity of 417 MW while the one in RLIC will have a capacity of 458 MW, the statement read, adding that the two plants, spread over a combined area of 10 square kilometres, are expected to start electricity production by the end of 2024.
The statement noted that the IC Solar project would increase Qatar’s renewable energy generation capacity to 1.675 gigawatts (GW).
Qatar is targeting 5 GW of solar-generated power by 2035.