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audi Diesel Equipment, founded in 1978 with core business of selling and manufacturing diesel generator sets for local market, has since branded itself as the sole provider of fully customized power solutions within the regional market. SDEC recently supplied Saudi Arabia's NEOM project with 23 gensets - these feature ATS: Automatic Transfer Switches

MTS: Manual Transfer Switches,  and Control Panels with Synchronization options and fuel storage systems.

  Saudi Arabia's planned $500 billion futuristic city known as Neom is building a renewable power grid, according to the executive director of Neom Energy. The first tender packages to be issued will be in the range of 400 MW to 800 MW.

    Neom is being built along Saudi Arabia's borders with Jordan and just across the narrow Strait of Aqaba from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula; it is a linchpin of the world's largest oil exporter's plans to diversify its fossil fuels-dominated economy. It will be home to one of the world's largest green hydrogen projects and is expected to span across 26,500 sq km. It is also expected to function as a carbon-neutral city that will be able to accommodate up to 1 million people.

 Energy consumption from the planned region is expected to be around 50 TWh to 60 TWh "at the very minimum," said a NEOM spokesman. "We could also see a substantial growth depending on the uptake of energy-intensive industries which are in demand of 100% renewable power supply."

Energy industry activities will include the planned green hydrogen project as well as renewables-based desalination for both public consumption and for use in electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. Saudi Arabia is building one of the world's biggest green hydrogen projects in Neom. The project developed by Riyadh-based ACWA Power and Air Products will be completed by Q1 of 2026. It will produce 240,000 mt/year of green hydrogen, which will in turn be processed into 1.2 million mt/year of ammonia.

   Neom will look to tap 8 GW to 10 GW of wind power and between 16 GW and 20 GW of solar power generation based on its current set of assumptions, Madrian said.

With new planned additions such as the Oxagon industrial city and The Line, which will have no cars and no streets, demand for energy is expected to be considerably higher.

"If demand in Oxagon, Neom's reimagined industrial city, would pick up on large industrial customers, need for additional renewable supply will increase correspondingly," a spokesman said.  

A big challenge for the development is to provide clean drinking water with low energy impact. The arid oil-producing regions of the Middle East account for nearly half of the world's desalination capacity.

 The plants operate on largely natural gas-powered generation, which accounts for a significant chunk of overall electricity demand. Neom, which plans to have zero-carbon impact, could even tap into Saudi Arabia's geothermal energy reserves as well as use large-scale concentrated solar power to produce clean water.

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Oct 21, 2024
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