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Acwa Power has contracted China’s Chint Group to provide EPC services for three solar PV plants totalling 165.5MW at the Benban Solar Park in Aswan, Egypt.

ACWA Power has reached financial close on three solar PV projects under round two of Egypt Feed-in-Tariff program II – with the three installations boasting a generation capacity of 165.5MW.

UPDATED: Saudi Arabia’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) has shortlisted local firm Acwa Power and a consortium led by Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation to develop 300MW of solar PV in Sakaka, Al Jouf.

Saudi energy company ACWA Power has reached financial closing on a 61.3MW PV project that it is developing in the Risha region of Jordan.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a US$22 million loan for a 50MW solar PV project being developed by Acwa Power in the Risha region of Jordan.

Yesterday’s record-breaking bid opening in Saudi Arabia for 300MW of solar has grabbed headlines, including on PV Tech, but while the exact parameters of the RfP remain covert, the bid levels have sparked debate about whether such low prices can be possible without some kind of escalating tariff mechanism or other distortion.

Acwa Power has been awarded three solar PV projects in the Aswan Province of Benban, Egypt, under Round 2 of the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) programme.

Utility-scale solar projects totalling 750MW could receive support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, officially inaugurated the 200MW second phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Monday.

ET Solutions, a subsidiary of ET Energy, announced Wednesday that it has started construction on a 60.9MW solar power project in Jordan for ACWA Power — a Saudi-based independent power producer.