Kuwait plugs in country's 1st solar park - report

Kuwait switched on its first solar power facility on Wednesday -- a 10-MW plant that supplies both the public electricity network and Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC) Umm Gudair oilfield.

The newly-launched solar park was built at a total cost of KWD 30 million (USD 99m/EUR 90.7m).

KOC’s chief executive Jamal Ja'afar told reporters, as quoted by Reuters, that by 2020 the company hopes to be producing 20% of the electricity it needs from alternative energy. Last year, Kuwait unveiled plans to meet 15% of its energy needs with renewables by 2030.

In late May 2016, The National quoted a company official as saying that KOC was holding talks with companies to use solar energy, chiefly from concentrated solar power (CSP), for oil extraction.

(KWD 1.0 = USD 3.298/EUR 3.022)

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