QatarEnergy will build a new solar PV power station with 2 GW installed capacity
It will be located in the Dukhan area as part of its Sustainability Strategy
Once online, it will boost the country’s total installed PV capacity to about 4 GW
Formerly known as Qatar Petroleum, the state-owned petroleum company of Qatar, QatarEnergy has announced plans to build a solar PV power project with a 2 GW installed capacity. This will expand the country’s total solar PV power production capacity to about 4 GW, it added, saying this represents approximately 30% of Qatar’s total electrical power production capacity.
Calling its 2 GW solar power plant one of the world’s largest PV projects, QatarEnergy said it will be stationed in the Dukhan area.
“I am pleased to announce that, in line with our Sustainability Strategy, we will more than double our solar power production capacity to about 4,000 megawatts by 2030 through the world-scale, 2,000 megawatt Dukhan Solar Power Plant,” said the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, also the country’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi.
The company currently has the 800 MW Al-Kharsaah Solar Power Plant which was commissioned by QatarEnergy in consortium with TotalEnergies and Marubeni in 2022 (see Qatar’s 1st Large Scale Solar Power Plant Online). It is also building 2 more solar PV projects in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed industrial cities with a combined 875 MW capacity. Both these projects are expected to come online before the end of 2024.
Under its National Energy Strategy, Qatar targets to achieve 18% renewable energy share by 2030, which will require 4 GW of new large-scale renewable energy capacity, primarily solar PV (see Qatar Launches National Renewable Energy Strategy). At the end of 2023, its total installed renewables capacity was 824 MW, including 805 MW PV.
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