Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) has invited firms to bid by 26 September for the consultancy contract for the 3,600MW first phase of an integrated water and power plant in Nuwaiseeb.

The project is expected to be procured as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, a source close to the project tells MEED.

The contract calls for a consultant for a project ‘to supply, install, operate and maintain 3,600MW [of] combined-cycle gas turbine units at the Nuwaiseeb site phase one’.

It is the third major scheme being planned in the country, next to the Al-Zour North 2 & 3 independent water and power producer (IWPP) and Al-Khiran 1 IWPP projects, which are being tendered as one contract, as well as the 3,500MW next phases of the Shagaya Renewable Energy Project (SREP).

MEED reported last month that Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (Kapp) is expected to issue the request for qualifications between the third and fourth quarters of this year for the contract to develop the planned Al-Zour North 2 and 3 and Al-Khiran 1 IWPP projects.

Kapp also aims to issue the request for proposals for the schemes early next year.

The Al-Zour North 2 and 3 IWPP will merge the previously planned second and third phases, and will have a generation capacity of 2,700MW and desalination capacity of 165 million imperial gallons a day (MIGD).

The Al-Khiran 1 IWPP will have a power generation capacity of 1,800MW and a desalination capacity of up to 125 MIGD./agencies