The Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) and the country’s Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy have issued a request for proposals (RfP) from six prequalified bidders for a 1.1 GW solar project and its associated 400 kV power transmission substation to be developed in the Shagaya Renewable Energy Park in Kuwait’s Jahra Governorate.
Specifically, two companies and four consortia were prequalified for the Al Dibdibah Power and Al Shagaya Renewable Energy Phase III Zone I solar project. The eligible companies are France’s TotalEnergies Renewables and Vietnam’s Trung Nam Construction Investment Corporation. The four consortia include: (1) Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Kuwait’s Alternative Energy Projects Company; (2) France’s EDF Renewables, Kuwait’s Abdullah Al Hamad Al Sagar and South Korea’s Korean Western Power (KOWESPO); (3) China’s Jinko Power with Japan’s JERA and Kuwait’s National Technology Enterprises Company; and (4) the UAE’s Masdar alongside Kuwait’s Fouad Alghanim & Sons. The six eligible bidders will have to submit their technical and commercial bids by 14 September 2025.
At the end of 2023, solar represented less than 1% of Kuwait’s installed capacity with only about 102 MW installed.
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