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Draft Procedure
Process flow of
Application
IPP&RE
receives RE
Applicant
application

Comments
1. What if the IPP&RE of
SEC receives two
applicants for the same
site? Or the area being
applied for a wind
projects overlaps with
another on-going sites.

Explanation
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Step 1.
Submission of
Application by
self RE Power
Producer

1. The process of
application of an RE
applicant may
consider to include
guarantee or
deposits for
projects/sites that an
RE applicant applying.

The guarantee or deposit will serve as a bond to

these RE applicant that they will and are committed
to undertake such projects. This will avoid many RE
applicant just submitting application for purpose of
securing a site then later on they will not pursue the
project due to problems with financial closure.

2. Technical and financial

capabilities shall be
included as a
requirement for

RE projects requires feasibility studies before you

decide the viability of a site and apply it for
implementation. The process flow mentioned a
capacity therefore, an FS has been undertaken or
even the construction because the process flow
indicated a grid impact study for connection after
endorsement by the IPP&RE.
It is not clear in the process flow how an RE applicant
will able to verify if the site he like to explore is
cleared or has no other parties already undertaking
a study.

An RE Applicant must possess technical and financial

capabilities to undertake his obligations in putting up
and operating an RE project.
The qualifications will avoid fly-by-night RE
applicant. This will avoid too many RE applicant

submitting intent to develop project where we could

see later on that they are not committed to pursue it
or just still waiting for their investor to financed their
project.

application.
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Grid Impact
Studies

1.

Technical capabilities
could be evaluated by
the IPP&RE thru the
track record of the
company or expertise
of the personnel within
the company
Audited Financial
requirements, banks
certifications are
among documents to
measure the financial
capacity of an RE
Applicant

Is it possible for the Grid

Impact Studies (GIS) to
cover studied on Operating
Issues in integrating a
percentage of RE
generation in the power
system?

Operating Issues such as ramping requirements, load

following capacity, regulation capacity, overgeneration issues and potential solutions shall be
considered to be studied in relation to the target
percentage of renewables in the power system. Some
integration studies concluded that 20% of renewables
in the power systems is expected to increase
regulation ramping requirements by plus/minus 15 to
25 MW/min, morning ramp and regulation capacity
requirements also increased, and among others.

2. If the GIS could not include

the above studies on
Operating Issues, Who will
conduct such study?

The proposed
procedure
mentioned that
RE applicant
may offer their
surplus
electricity
export for sale
to the SEC
network.

1. Our SCADA shall be

capable to monitor and
manage these RE sites
when connected to
transmission line.

Does the Network Planning of the NGSA could do

studies on transmission and operational impacts of
interconnecting a percentage of renewables in the
power grid. Such study will be helpful to ISO.

Our SCADA system shall be able to remotely

access facilities throughout the Kingdom, and
where we could access alarms and event
conditions, data collection and reporting
capabilities. For example in case where there is
too much wind production in a day where the
demand is at low point, we could do some
curtailments and RE Applicant shall be aware of
such capability of our Control System.

In case of wind integration to power grids, our SCADA

system shall be a turbine supplier neutral. In the
future where many RE Applicant will install wind
turbine of different type and of various PLCs, our
SCADA system shall not be dedicated to any one PLC
vendor so that we could be free to provide data
reporting format and analysis report irrespective of
turbine type.