Abu Dhabi National Energy Company has agreed financing for the United Arab Emirates' largest gas-fired power plant, which is expected to cost approximately 4.2 billion dirhams (£880.63 million), the company said on Tuesday.
The Fujairah F3 Independent Power Producer (IPP) project will have a generating capacity of 2.4 gigawatts, enough to power the equivalent of 380,000 UAE households, and is expected to start production by summer 2022.
TAQA and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company [MUDEV.UL] will jointly hold a 60% stake in the project, while the remaining 40% will be held by Japan's Marubeni Corporation.
The external funding will be sourced from a consortium including Japan Bank for International Cooperation [JBIC.UL], BNP Paribas, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation [SUMFGK.UL], Sumitomo Trust Bank, and Standard Chartered [STANB.UL], Taqa said in a statement.
($1 = 3.6729 UAE dirham)
(Reporting by Hadeel Al Sayegh; Writing by Dahlia Nehme; Editing by Jason Neely and Jan Harvey)
