Research and Markets: Power & Desalination in the GCC 2010: Meeting the Demand and Feedstock Challenge

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0c6880/power_desalinati) has
announced the addition of the "Power & Desalination in the GCC 2010: Meeting the
Demand and Feedstock Challenge" report to their offering.

This report provides a detailed analysis of the existing Power and Desalination
market across the GCC offering data on existing capacity, demand growth and a
forecast for additional capacity and investment up to 2019. Benefit from access
to detailed insight into: existing infrastructure and planned projects, market
characteristics, challenges and opportunities, procurement strategies and the
project finance market, feedstock availability and the push for alternative
energy and data on the private developer and EPC contracting market.

The GCC Power generation and desalination sector is facing a record capacity
building programme over the coming decade. MEED forecasts that more than $135bn
will be required by 2019 if rising demand is to be met and old infrastructure is
to be replaced.

In view of the growing role of private developers, the biggest challenge for
utilities may well be not building the capacity but securing the feedstock to
fuel it. For with new gas allocations at a premium is much of the region, the
GCC is increasingly turning to alternative energy the report states. The regions
first coal-fired power plant could be commissioned in Oman in 2015 and will be
followed two years later by its first nuclear power station in the UAE.

MEED Insights latest research report aims to provide a comprehensive review of
the power and water generation sector in the GCC since 2005 and assess the
outlook for one of the regions most dynamic sectors up to 2019. In addition to
providing in-depth analysis on supply and demand, projected investment levels,
the increasing role of the private sector and the search for alternative energy,
the report gives a country-by-country assessment of the power and desalination
sectors.

This report is a comprehensive update of MEED's Power & Water in the GCC report,
which was first published in March 2008. It has been based on face-to-face
interviews with key players in the sector and supported by proprietary data
complied by MEED and MEED Projects. It has been written by MEEDs senior staff
writer Karin Maree and Research Director Angus Hindley.

Key Topics Covered:

* Preface
* Executive summary
* Introduction
* CHAPTERS
* - Alternative energy
* - The developer market
* - Bahrain
* - Kuwait
* - Oman
* - Qatar
* - Saudi Arabia
* - UAE Abu Dhabi
* - UAE Dubai
* - UAE Federal Electricity & Water Authority
* - UAE Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority
* Appendix

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