The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has invited bids for the 900 megawatt fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, according to Al Bayan.
The project is opened for qualified developers to submit their bids and vie for the massive renewable energy project.
The fifth phase of the multi-stage power project is expected to become operational in the second half of 2021 – under the independent power producer (IPP) formula.
The project is part of the 2050 Dubai Clean Energy Strategy, which aims at providing 75 per cent of the emirate’s needs in clean renweable energy by 2050-using photovoltaic panels.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is the biggest single-site project of its kind in the world for producing clean energy as an IPP scheme.
The authorities in Dubai are planning to produce 5,000MW by 2030, with investments topping AED50 billion.
The first and second phases were launched in 2013 and 2017, with an output of 13MW and 200MW respectively.
The third phase is expected to become operational in 2020, with a total output of 800MW, using photovoltaic panels. The fourth phase is considered as the worl's largest single site solar energy investment project.
The photovoltaic (PV) plant is being developed on a 16-square kilometre site in Seih Al Dahal, located on the outskirts of Dubai.
Owned by DEWA, the third phase is being developed by Shuaa Energy 2, the project company that includes Masdar, EDF Renewables and DEWA.
A Masdar-led consortium won the project in July 2016, as a result of offering the lowest recorded bid for a solar plant at the time, valued at 2.99 cents per kilowatt hour (kW/h).
Construction of Phase 3 began in January 2017. The first 200MW came on stream in April 2018, becoming the largest solar power plant to track the path of the sun, and the first of its kind in the Middle East.
The second 300MW is scheduled to be completed by Q2 2019, and the final 300MW is planned for April 2020, to coincide with the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.
When complete, the 800MW facility will offset 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
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