The Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has announced the Pre-Qualified Bidders for the fifth round of solar projects under the National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) which is led and supervised by the Ministry of Energy.

The combined capacity of Round 5 projects is approximately 3700 MW; the projects are as follows:

Below is the list of companies pre-qualified for the projects (Name in alphabetical order):

• Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar
• Al Jomaih Energy & Water Co.,Ltd.,
• Alfanar Company
• B. Grimm Power Public Company Limited
• BGL Renewable Energy Systems Installation LLC
• EDF Renouvelables S.A .
• FAS Energy KSA LLC
• GEK TERNA S. A
• Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited
• ITOCHU Corporation
• JERA Co.,Inc
• Jinko Power (HK)
• Kahrabel FZE
• Korea Electric Power Corporation
• Marubeni Corporation
• Nebras Power Q.P.S.C.
• Nesma Renewable Energy
• Power Construction Corporation of China
• Samsung C&T Corporation
• Saudi Electricity Company
• SPIC Huanghe Hydropower Development Co. Ltd.
• Sumitomo Corporation
• Total Energies Renewables SAS

These projects are part of NREP, which aims to achieve the optimal energy mix, displacing liquid fuels in the Kingdom’s power sector and supply 50% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030.

SPPC is responsible for the predevelopment, tendering, and subsequently offtaking the Energy from the projects. To date, SPPC has awarded over 12.6 GW of renewable energy capacity under NREP.