Rabigh 2 IPP (R2IPP) is a

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project under construction on the western coast of

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, north of

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; , ), is a List of governorates of Saudi Arabia, governorate and the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located ...

. R2IPP will have an installed electrical generating capacity of 2,060

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s to supply

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Province with

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. The project will deliver electricity to

Saudi Electricity Company Saudi Electricity Company (; SEC) is the Saudi Electric utility, electric energy company. It enjoys a near monopoly on the generation, transmission and distribution of electric power in Saudi Arabia through 45 power generation plants in the coun ...

under the power purchase agreement which has a term of 20 years from the scheduled commercial operations date of June 2020.

Technology

The project will utilize natural gas as main fuel and Arabian Super Light (ASL) as backup fuel and with the application of combined cycle power station in a configuration of three blocks, each composed of two

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s of enhanced

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, two

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s and one triple pressure

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which will substantially reduce the fuel consumption, the impact on sea water temperatures and carbon emissions to the environment. R2IPP comprises 4 identical power blocks, each delivering a net output of 686.5 MW. For each of these units,

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is delivering two model SGT6-5000F gas turbines, one model SST6-5000 HI-L steam turbine, and three SGen6-1000A-series

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s. It will be the first

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with a gross thermal efficiency of 58.8% at reference site conditions.

Shareholders

The shareholder structure of Al Mourjan For Electricity Production Company is as follows: * ACWA Power *

Samsung C&T Corporation Samsung Construction and Trading Corporation (; stylized as Samsung C&T) is a South Korean construction and engineering company. It was founded in 1938 as the first Samsung company and was initially involved in construction and overseas trading ...

EPC contractor

has been appointed as EPC contractor.

Milestone dates

Contract Signing: December 25, 2013
Completion: June 25, 2020

References

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