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Jordan signs new agreement for renewable energy project

Xinhua, October 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Jordan signed an agreement to purchase electricity from a U.S.-owned wind power plant in Jordan, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said Saturday.

The agreement, signed between Jordan's state-run National Electric Power Company and the U.S. company, Hecate Energy, announced the project costs at around 115 million U.S. dollars, the ministry said in a press statement.

The 45 megawatts wind power plant is expected to generate 170 gigawatt hours of electricity per year, its commercial operation expected in the second half of 2019.

The agreement is in line with the government's policies to diversify energy resources, said Ibrahim Saif, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources.

He added that the government is working to increase the contribution of the renewable energy resources to 10 percent of its energy mix by 2020. The figure currently stands at three percent.

Jordan imports about 97 percent of its energy needs. Endit