Acwa Power has emerged as the preferred bidder for the construction and operation of the Hassyan Phase 1 Independent Water Producer (IWP) project. Being set up at with an investment of US $914mn, the plant will process 180 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD) of sea water, using ‘reverse osmosis’ technology.
COTABATO CITY — Residents of Tabuan Lasa island municipality in Basilan province are expected to benefit from a P15-million desalination facility project that will give them safe drinking water from the sea, the first ever in the province.
Morocco’s budget for water infrastructure is rising as desalination and dam projects advance amid droughts and increasing international partnerships.
COTABATO CITY — Residents of Tabuan Lasa island municipality in Basilan province are expected to benefit from a P15-million desalination facility project that will give them safe drinking water from the sea, the first ever in the province.
A DESALINATION plant (pictured above) of Vivant Corp. subsidiary Isla Mactan Cordova Corp. that is under construction in Barangay Catarman, Cordova, Cebu is expected to be operational by January next year. The plant’s equipment was installed on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Present during the installation ceremony were (inset, from left) Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia, Vivant Infracore Holdings president and chief operating officer Jess Anthony Garcia, Vivant Corp. chief executive officer Arlo A. G. Sarmiento, Cebu Provincial Board Member Carmela Franco, Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, Vivant Corp. chairman of the board Francis Damasus Garcia, Senate President Juan […]
The facility is nestled in a 3.5-hectare property in the barangays of Poblacion, Buagsong and Catarman in the Municipality of Cordova, Cebu.
According to the Capitol, the desalination plants can produce up to 20 million liters of potable water daily and expandable up to 50 million liters.
With a capacity of 300 million cubic meters and a huge financial package of 1.1 billion US dollars, this project is the result of cooperation between several sectors: energy, water and the environment.
These separation processes take a substantial amount of energy, accounting for roughly half of U.S. industrial energy use. Traditionally, molecular separations have relied on methods that require intensive heating and cooling that make them very energy inefficient.
CEBU CITY—Residents of Mactan Island in Cebu province will become water sufficient by early next year as the P2-billion Cordova Desalination Plant (CDP), the first in the country to use the technology to convert seawater into potable water on a large scale, will start its commercial operation.
The solar power plant, powered by Vertex N 700W+ series solar PV modules supplied by China’s Trina Solar, was integrated into the grid by its contractor SEPCOIII, Trina Solar said in a press statement.
The solar PV station will meet 20 percent of the desalination plant’s daily power requirements and curtail carbon emissions by 60,000 tonnes annually.