a level that requires tens of billions of riyals in investments for new projects. The Rabigh-6 plant, using gas turbines, will be powered by natural gas and crude. It will have a capacity of 2,400 to 2,800 MW, around 12 to 14 percent of the 20,000 MW of power the SEC plans to add by 2018 at an estimated total cost of $80 billion. Plants in Rabigh generate 32 percent of electricity power produced in the Western region, Al-Barrak said. --MORE