Establishing a center for storing electric energy in Jordan

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com- The American company &quot;AES&quot; announced its intention to establish a center to conserve the electric energy produced from its renewable energy projects in Jordan and the Middle East. According to the local newspaper Al-Ghad.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The center will include batteries dedicated to preserving the electricity produced from its renewable energy projects in the Middle East, as Jordan will be a starting point for them in the region to conserve and use this energy.”</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The capacity of these batteries will range from 20 to 100 megawatts, while the final cost of the project is not clear.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The company is owned through a joint venture with the Japanese company Mitsui; The private generation projects and the fourth for the production of electric power in the Kingdom are located in the Madouna area in the village of Al-Manakher, east of Amman.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The two projects together cover about 25% of the total electrical load in the Kingdom, as the generating capacity of the first project is 370 megawatts, while the capacity of the fourth project is 241 megawatts.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The project relies on a hybrid technology to generate electricity by traditional methods using heavy fuel or diesel and solar energy at the same time for a period of 7 to 8 hours per day, and it will produce about 100 megawatts of electricity at the maximum level through solar cells, and the construction cost reaches about $ 180 million. .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>