Jordan’s National Electric Power plans to sign a $400 million contract for a 480MW power plant with Saudi Arabia-based Acwa Power, a report said.

The new plant will replace the Hussein Thermal Power Station in Aqaba, Ghaleb Maabreh, secretary general of Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, was quoted as saying in a Bloomberg report.

The plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 and run primarily on natural gas as well as gasoline, he explained.