Harbin Electric International and General Electric (GE) have won the EPC contract to develop the giant Hassyan clean coal power plant in Dubai.
The deal was awarded by Hassyan Energy Company, a joint venture between Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) (51%) and ACWA Power Harbin Holding Company (49%).
Hassyan Clean Coal IPP is the first clean coal power plant in the Middle East. The ultra-supercritical plant will deliver best in class performance on efficiency, output and adherence to global environmental best practices.
Mohammed Abunayyan, Chairman of ACWA Power, said: “By signing this agreement today, we have taken a significant step towards starting the engineering and construction works as per the stated timeframe for the first plant of generating electricity with clean coal in the Gulf region within our strategic businesses and projects in the UAE.”
The signing of the EPC agreement follows the close of the 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between DEWA and ACWA Power for the development of phase one of the project.
Phase 1 of the project consists of four units of 600 MW net power each, which will respectively be operational in March 2020, March 2021, March 2022 and March 2023.