Overview
A consortium consisting of Masdar, EDF Renewables and Nesma announced in 2019 that it had won the tender for the Dumat Al Jandal wind farm in Saudi Arabia. With an installed capacity of 400 megawatts (MW), it is Saudi Arabia’s first wind farm and the largest in the Middle East.
The project displaces approximately one million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
The wind farm benefits from a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Saudi Power Procurement Company, a subsidiary of SEC (Saudi Electricity Company), the Saudi power generation and distribution company.
The wind farm is located 900 kilometres north of Riyadh in the Al Jouf region of north-western Saudi Arabia. The project is 51 per cent owned by EDF Renewables and 49 per cent by Masdar.
Project Info
Technologies Used
Wind
Location
Saudi Arabia
Project Completion Year
2022
Status
Operational
Partners
