International Power, the UK subsidiary of French utility GDF SUEZ, is to expand its jointly-owned Tihama power production sites in Saudi Arabia after winning a contract extension through to 2026 from oil company Saudi Aramco.
The expansion will take place at three of the four existing sites and will generate additional capacity of 532 megawatts (MW) and 2,210 gigajoules per hour (GJ/h) of steam. Following the expansion, Tihama will have a total capacity of 1,595MW and 8,112GJ/h of steam.
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