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A 51.7-megawatt wind farm project was launched Thursday in the southern governorate of Tafileh with a projected annual output of 155 gigawatt hours. The project is owned and operated by Daehan Wind Power Company (DHWP), a special-purpose company co-invested in by the South Korean utility Korean Southern Power (KOSPO) and Daelim Energy, Jordan News Agency Petra reported.

Speaking following the opening of the project, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Hala Zawati noted that the project is part of the nation's 2020-2030 energy strategy which seeks to secure sustainable and clean sources of energy and ultimately arrive at an installed capacity of 3,200 megawatts from renewables, contributing 31 percent to the total power mix, as reported by Petra.

She stressed that the government's partnership with the private sector, including investors and financiers, in implementing such projects, has placed Jordan among the world's leading countries in the field of renewable energy in the Middle East and beyond.

According to Zawati, the installed capacity of renewable energy projects is now at 2,270 megawatts, including 1,645 megawatts from solar energy projects, and 625 megawatts from wind power projects.

Furthermore, the minister indicated that the combined capacity of projects to cover consumption in the private sector reached about 825 megawatts, distributed over more than 34,000 systems, against 35 commercial projects with a capacity of 1445 megawatts.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC) Hussein Allaboun, Korean Ambassador in Amman Lee Jae-wan, and the top executives of Daehan Wind Power Company, the South Korean utility Korean Southern Power (KOSPO) and Vestas Middle East, a global leader in wind turbine manufacturing.