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Image used for illustrative purposes. Poseidon Water project manager Peter MacLaggen (R) talks to fellow workers as they stand between rows of reverse osmosis filters at the Western Hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant under construction in Carlsbad, California, April 14, 2015.
Saudi Arabia’s 600,000 cubic metres/day (m3/day) Jubail 3A independent water plant (IWP) plant has commenced full operations after receiving the commercial operation certificate from state-run Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), ACWA Power said in a statement.
The $650 million greenfield project , also known as Jazlah Water Desalination Company, was delivered by a consortium comprising ACWA Power (40.2 percent), Gulf Investment Corporation (40 percent), and AlBawani Water & Power Company (19.8 percent).
The consortium had bid a record low tariff of $0.41/m3 to win the desalination project, which will deliver potable water to three million people in Riyadh and Qassim regions.
It achieved an efficiency record of 2.8 kWh/cubic metre of water using Arabian Gulf seawater.
The project encompasses a 45.5 MW solar PV power generation facility, which will account for 20 percent of the plant’s energy consumption .
The execution of the project involved the EPC consortium of Power China, Sepco III, Lantania, and Abengoa, while SWPC is the offtaker, the statement noted.
(Writing by P Deol; Editing by Anoop Menon)
