AMMAN — Energy Minister Alaa Batayneh on Wednesday unveiled plans for the country’s first private sector renewable energy projects as part of efforts to ease the Kingdom’s ongoing energy crunch.
At a press conference Batayneh said the government launched talks with two private sector firms to establish a 10 megawatt (MW) solar plant in the northern city of Mafraq and a 117MW wind farm on the outskirts of the southern city of Tafileh.
The initiatives come as part of some 30 memoranda of understanding signed between the government and local and international investors to establish up to 1,000MW worth of small- and medium-scale renewable energy projects across the country over the next five years.