Deal #10672

Land area

Intended size

1 450 ha

Size under contract (leased or purchased area)

[current] 1 450 ha

Comment on land area

The 44.85 megawatt (MW) Wind Farm consists of 13 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) across 1,450 hectares and is located near the village of Al Shobak, 46km north-west of Ma’an city in the Ma'an Governorate, approximately 160km south of Amman, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Intention of investment

[current] Wind farm (1 450 ha)

Carbon offset project

Comment on carbon offset project

The project is estimated to avoid over 65,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year however no information on registration for offset

Nature of the deal

Lease

Comment on nature of the deal

The Project will be developed on governmentally-owned lands, and a lease agreement will be signed between the Developer and MEMR/Department of Lands and Survey (DLS).

Negotiation status

[current] Concluded (Change of ownership)

Implementation status

[current] In operation (production)

Comment on implementation status

The Project commenced construction in June 2018 and achieved commercial operations in October 2020 supplying an estimated 157 million KWh of electricity per year to the National Electrical Power Company (NEPCO) in Jordan under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) contract for 20 years.