Four successful bidders emerge in Jordan PV tender

Jordan has announced the successful bidders under the country’s second 200 MW photovoltaic tender round.

Initially33 companies submitted an initial application to Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources under this round and finally only 24 companies submitted financial bids.

The tender round saw record low feed-in tariffs (FITS), with the four successful bids attracting tariffs 50% under those seen in the first tender.The four successful bidders were:

• GI Karnomourakis SunRise PV Systems (Greece), with a FIT bid US$0.0613 per kWh;
• Saudi Oger with $6.49 per kWh;
• Fotowatio Renewable Ventures/Abdul Latif Jamil (ALJ) with $6.91 per kWh; and
• Hareon Swiss Holding with $7.67 per kWh.

Seeing the prices in this tender round solar energy is extremely competitive compared to conventional sources of power generation in the Middle East.

See below for a list of the submitted bids under Jordan’s second round of PV tender.

• GI Karnomourakis SunRise PV Systems
• Saudi Oger
• Fotowatio/ALJ
• Hareon Swiss Holding
• Evolution Solar/AMP
• Philadelphia Solar
• SolaireDirect
• Neoen
• Linuo Group
• Activ Solar
• Mainstream
• Kawar-First Solar
• Alten Renewable Energy Developments
• Al Sanad for Renewable Energy (JoSolars)
• SkyPower-FAS
• SunEdison
• Elecnor
• ACWA Power
• SECI
• ELF-ENEL
• Scatec
• Hanergy
• Spectrum International for Investment
• Suncore PV Technology