Consultants warn Hassyan plant deadline is unrealistic
Doubts are emerging over plans for a $2,000 million power station at Hassyan, close to the Abu Dhabi border, with consultants on the scheme saying the schedule is unrealistic.
Building the complex, called P Station, comes at a time when Dubai needs to boost its electrical power generation capacity. In 2006, peak power demand jumped by 16.5 per cent.
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) plans to build two water and power plants at the site simultaneously. Both will have power capacity of 1,500 MW and 100 million gallons of water a day.
'I do not think they can tender two plants in parallel,' says a local consultant on the project. 'The whole thing is unrealistic in terms of equipment delivery times, which are taking much longer now. The market is full and I see big problems ahead, similar to what happened on M Station.'
In December, Dewa attracted only one new bidder when it retendered the contract for the Jebel Ali M Station, because of contractors' heavy workloads.
The UK's Mott Macdonald is the consultant for the first plant. Germany's Lahmeyer International is expected to receive a letter of acceptance for the consultancy contract for the second plant by the end of September.
Construction tenders for the plants are expected by late December, with an award in May 2008. Commercial production is due to start in May 2011 (MEED 15:6:07).
Doubts are emerging over plans for a $2,000 million power station at Hassyan, close to the Abu Dhabi border, with consultants on the scheme saying the schedule is unrealistic.
Building the complex, called P Station, comes at a time when Dubai needs to boost its electrical power generation capacity. In 2006, peak power demand jumped by 16.5 per cent. Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) plans to build two water and power plants at the site simultaneously. Both will have power capacity of 1,500 MW and 100 million gallons of water a day. 'I do not think they can tender two plants in parallel,' says a local consultant on the project. 'The whole thing is unrealistic in terms of equipment delivery times, which are taking much longer now. The market is full and I see big problems ahead, similar to what happened on M Station.' In December, Dewa attracted only one new bidder when it retendered the contract for the Jebel Ali M Station, because of contractors' heavy workloads. The UK's Mott Macdonald is the consultant for the first plant. Germany's Lahmeyer International is expected to receive a letter of acceptance for the consultancy contract for the second plant by the end of September. Construction tenders for the plants are expected by late December, with an award in May 2008. Commercial production is due to start in May 2011 (MEED 15:6:07).This content is only available to full MEED package subscribers (MEED magazine and MEED.com).
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