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Media In / Skaka 21 November 2018
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, inaugurated the Sakaka Solar Energy Project in Al-Jouf, which is the first project of the National Renewable Energy Program, which comes from King Salman Renewable Energy Initiative.
The project aims at a sustainable increase in the share of renewable energy from the total energy sources used in electricity generation in the Kingdom. The project cost about one billion and twenty five million riyals ($ 300 million), with a capacity of 300 megawatts, About 930 jobs in the construction, operation and maintenance phases, and is expected to contribute about 450 million riyals ($ 120 million) in GDP.
The Dhumat al-Jandal Power Plant, which will produce 400 megawatts of wind power, is designed to power 70,000 homes.
In addition, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques inaugurated a number of projects of petroleum products, industrial projects and electricity projects, including the expansion of the petroleum products distribution station to meet the local demand of Al-Jawf and Tarif, the infrastructure of the Al Jawf city center, the establishment of various plants, A major conversion and extension of ground cables, which cost more than one billion riyals
