Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) will announce on Thursday the next phase in a 3,000 megawatt solar park that Dubai plans to build by 2030. The government-controlled utility is seeking advisers for a 200MW concentrated solar power project. Dubai is seeking to expand renewable energy supply and boost efficiency to reduce its demand for imported natural gas, which currently fuels most of its power plants. The company already has a 13MW solar facility operating at a desert site and is building another 200MW facility expected to be complete in April 2017. The utility received a record-low USD0.0299 per kilowatt-hour bid for a 800MW facility last month. The first three phases of the planned 3,000 megawatt solar park use photovoltaic technology, which uses panels to transform the sun’s heat into electricity. The next segment would be the first to use concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to reflect the sun’s rays, often to heat a liquid or produce steam used to generate power. (Bloomberg)