Five turbines in Ma’an, 25 megawatts, and Abu Dhabi is paying for all of it.
Jordan’s Samra Electric Power Generation Company has signed the EPC contract for the Batn Al Ghul wind project with SITE Technology General Contracting. The scope covers design, supply and installation of five turbines with a combined 25 MW in Ma’an Governorate, funded entirely by the government of the UAE. The contract sits under the cooperation agreement Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources signed with Masdar in February. Renewables currently supply about 27 percent of Jordan’s electricity, and the 2025 to 2035 energy strategy approved by Cabinet in May targets 40 percent by 2035.
Why it matters
The global wind build-out runs on auctions, PPAs and merchant equity. This one runs on bilateral government funding, with a foreign state as financier and a state-owned Jordanian generator as the contracting party. In our read, that structure barely registers in the capacity statistics, and it is one of the few routes that still moves steel in markets too small or too grid-constrained to attract private developers on price alone.
What it means for MENA
Masdar already holds 50 percent of the 117 MW Tafila wind farm and runs the 200 MW Baynouna solar plant, so Jordan is familiar ground. The number worth watching is not 25. In June, Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan and Masdar CEO Mohamed Jameel Al-Ramahi discussed wind projects totalling 2,000 MW, with technical studies being finalised ahead of implementation. If any meaningful share of that arrives through the same bilateral channel rather than a tender, Jordan becomes the working template for how second-tier MENA wind markets get built.
