Mahmoud Al-Ayss, director of planning at Jordan's ministry of energy, has said the government will ask 16 pre-qualified firms to bid for a wind-power generation project, Arabic Ad-Dustour has reported. The plant, expected to cost an estimated $150m, will have a capacity of between 80 megawatts and 90 megawatts and could be expanded to 200 megawatts, he was quoted as saying.