Bahrain to construct 100-MW solar park on landfill site

• Bahrain is preparing to construct a solar park with a minimum of 100-MW capacity in the country's Southern Governorate.

Last week, the kingdom's Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) opened a tender to select a certified specialist to remediate a 2-sq km landfill site to prepare the plot for the building of the solar farm.

The winner in the auction will certainly be tasked with the layout as well as construction of a landfill gas extraction and also treatment system in addition to with land removal and the development of gas and leachate monitoring systems.

In a separate auction, EWA will certainly issue a request for proposals (RfP) for creating the solar plant which will be found on the remediated landfill site in Askar.

"Converting this landfill site to a solar farm efficient in creating 100 MW is just one of several steps the nation wishes to execute to understand the objective of bringing carbon discharges in Bahrain to net zero by 2060", said EWA's head of state Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed.

In August, Bahrain released a tender, looking for to award at the very least 72 MW of solar that need to be mounted across several premises in Sakhir.