Four-stage Kuwait PWP avoids finance law
- From: Vol 11, Issue 12 (December 2010)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Kuwait
- Related Companies: Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water
New government rules have brought on a burst of privately-finance projects in Kuwait. But the country’s water ministry is having to find ways around the legislation to commission new capacity in time to meet rising demand.
Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) is procuring its latest major power and water project in four stages to avoid new privatisation laws, which ministry officials say would slow the development too much.
The facility at Khirran South will eventually generate a total of 2,000MW of power and 200 MIGD (909,200m3/d) of water desalinated with ...
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