United Arab Emirates
The Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) has established a division to invest in renewables, and will take part in Morocco’s upcoming tenders for wind and solar. The company, which already has a power division in Morocco, is part of a consortium that will bid for a 150MW wind farm in the country within the next few weeks. It will also bid for a 165MW concentrating solar power project, and will consider bidding for one of the five wind farms totalling 850MW for which the government invited tenders last month. The new unit has also begun a feasibility study into an energy-from-waste project in Abu Dhabi, to reduce the emirate’s burgeoning landfill problem and help meet its growing electricity needs.
