EXCLUSIVE: Client receives bids for Fujairah IPP advisory role

21 November 2018
Major independent power project is planned in northern emirate of Fujairah

Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company (Adwec) has received proposals from firms for consultancy roles on its planned F3 independent power project (IPP) in the northern emirate of Fujairah.

According to sources close to the project, the F3 IPP is planned to have a generation capacity of between 2,400MW and 3,000MW. Consultants were invited to submit bids for technical, financial and legal advisory roles on the proposed IPP.

The client is planning to begin the tendering process by March next year.

The F3 project has been in the planning stage for a number of years. MEED reported in April 2016 that an agreement to transfer the land next to the existing F2 independent water and power project (IWPP) in Fujairah to Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (Adwea), now called Department of Energy, had been completed, paving the way for the next utility project at the site.

According to a source close to the client, the planned project is still in the early stages and decisions still have to be made on whether the project will move ahead under Adwec or the client for the Northern Emirates, the Federal Electricity & Water Authority (Fewa). The source added that funding sources are also not finalised.

The F2 IWPP, which has a power generation capacity of 2,000MW and a desalination component of 130 million imperial gallons a day (MIGD), was commissioned in 2011. The $2.8bn facility took three years to build. Adwea selected a consortium led by the UK’s International Power (now UK/French Engie) and Japan’s Marubeni Corporation to build the scheme in 2007.

In 2013, Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries awarded a contract to Spain’s Acciona to expand the desalination component of the existing 100MIGD Fujairah 1 (F1) IWPP project by 30MIGD. Sembcorp has a 40 per cent holding in the owner of the plant, Emirates Sembcorp Water & Power Company, with Adwea holding the remaining share.

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