Project scope
1,800 MW natural-gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant
Reported status and procurement
- Reported development
ACWA Power and Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) signed a 25-year power purchase agreement for development, financing, construction, ownership and operation of the plant; SPPC is the sole off-taker.
- Procurement availability
- Unknown / not established
A source report alone does not establish current progress or an open buying window.
Project summary
Qassim 1 (Qassim 1 Independent Power Project) is an 1,800 MW natural-gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in the Al-Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. ACWA Power is named as developer. ACWA Power and Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) signed a 25-year power purchase agreement covering development, financing, construction, ownership and operation; SPPC is the sole off-taker. ACWA Power lists Q2 2027 as the planned commercial operations date.
GE Vernova locates Qassim 1 around 30 km southeast of Buraydah. Its announcement, dated June 24, 2024, identifies SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. as the EPC company from which it secured an equipment order for Qassim 1 and Taiba 1 together: six 7HA.03 and two 7E.03 gas turbines. GE Vernova says the order was booked in March 2024; the announcement gives no Qassim 1-specific turbine allocation. It also reports signing a 21-year service agreement with NOMAC, an ACWA Power subsidiary, to support plant operations. These are historical order and service details, not evidence of current purchasing availability.
Gulf Days’ article, dated September 24, 2026, reports that ACWA Power announced the start of initial commercial operations. It says ACWA received a notice on September 22 from Qudra One for Electricity Co., identified as the project company, stating that an Initial Commercial Operation Certificate had been awarded for initial units. The article gives those units’ generation capacity as 1,283 MW, against its stated total planned capacity of 1,896 MW. It does not state the certificate’s award date or establish full-plant operation. Gulf Days’ 1,896 MW figure differs from ACWA Power’s 1,800 MW project-page scope; the available reporting does not resolve the rating basis or reconcile the figures.
Reading-scope note: The GE Vernova PDF capture covers page 1 of five; its unselected pages and graphical content were not reviewed. The Gulf Days capture includes the article’s main text and document titles, but the whole document was not reviewed and linked materials or images were not acquired.
Evidence limits and unknowns
The supplied reports do not establish the status of the capacity beyond the initial units, a full-plant commercial operation date, or the certificate’s award date. The stated 1,800 MW and 1,896 MW totals have no reconciled rating basis in the reviewed material.
GE Vernova reports turbine quantities for Qassim 1 and Taiba 1 together, without a Qassim 1-specific allocation; the selected page does not establish Qassim 1’s equipment delivery or current status.
A current supplier tender, open package or buying window is not established by these historical order, service and initial-operation reports.
