Saudi Arabia’s Enowa, a fully owned subsidiary of Neom, has issued a tender inviting companies to bid for the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance (O&M) services contract to build the first phase of the Duba Energy Park in Tabuk. The tender was floated in early March and the last date for bid submission is 26 May. The project site is located northwest of the existing 380/132/13.8kV Duba Energy Park along the highway between Duba and Neom airport. Two power stations are set to be developed at Duba Energy Park. The first phase comprises a 300MW transportable gas turbine generator (GTG) designed to deliver emergency power to Neom. The second phase is a permanently installed 500MW facility comprising heavy-duty GTGs. Both are considered fast-track projects, with the first phase due for completion in 2024 and the second phase in 2025. Power generated from both plants will be used for baseload operations until 2030. The plan entails converting the plants' fuel to 100% renewable fuel or hydrogen by 2027 or 2028, aligning with Neom's goal to be powered 100% by renewable energy by the decade's end. US-based engineering firm Jacobs is the project consultant.  In February  Enowa had received bids for a contract to undertake early works at Duba Energy Park in Tabuk. The contract scope covers the site preparatory works for constructing new power plants at the Duba Energy Park. Neom utility projects Tenders are coming rapidly for utility project-related packages catering to Saudi Arabia's  $500bn Neom development. Bids were due in early March for the contracts to build a 1.2GW wind farm in Gayal and an 800MW solar farm in Shiqri.   The developer team for the planned zero-liquid discharge (ZLD) seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, Japan's Itochu and France's Veolia, is expected to appoint an EPC contractor for the first phase of the project this year. A smaller facility, the Moonlight desalination project, is in the prequalification stage and may be built on a fast-track basis using an EPC model. The first wastewater treatment and recycling plant in Neom is going ahead, with Enowa receiving developers' interest in the build-own-operate-transfer scheme in January.    Other packages have been tendered or awarded to construct water pipelines and reservoirs, with the renewable energy packages understood to include the construction of substations and cables to evacuate the power to the distribution centres.   For registration as supplier: https://www.neom.com/en-us/our-business/suppliers (ICE RIYADH)

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