Omani oil carrier turns on 100 MW solar park

• The PV plant lies at Amin, in the southern desert region of the sultanate. The job, tendered by Oil Advancement Oman in early 2018, was built by a consortium led by the Japanese Marubeni conglomerate.

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has commissioned the 100 MW Amin Photovoltaic Nuclear power plant it deployed in the community of Amin in the southern desert area of the sultanate.

The $94 million task is had by the Amin Renewable Energy Firm S.A.O.C special objective automobile whose shareholders are Japanese corporation Marubeni Firm, the state-owned Oman Gas Business, Omani developer Bahwan Renewable resource Business LLC and also Qatari government-related entity and nonrenewable fuel source company Nebras Power QPSC.

The solar plant will sell power to PDO under a 23-year contract for an undisclosed price, the oil business said. PDO had mentioned the tariff agreed for the solar power produced was one of the most affordable on the planet when the center was granted, in October 2018.

The plant is 210km northwest of the town of Thumrait in southerly Oman, in PDO's oil and also natural gas concession location.

The oil firm is 60% owned by the federal government of Oman with Anglo-Dutch as well as French peers Covering Group and Overall holding risks of 34% and also 4%, specifically. The staying 2% of the business is owned by Portuguese oil company Partex.

Several large solar parks are being created in Oman under a tender program handled by the state-owned Oman Power as well as Water Purchase Co. Fellow state-owned entity the Rural Areas Electricity Business has actually tendered 11 solar-diesel-storage tasks with an incorporated capacity of 146 MW as part of a federal government strategy to add 4 GW of renewables generation ability by 2030.