Desal plant to bolster water supplies in 30-year plan – Queensland
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told parliament on Tuesday the new desalination plant would be delivered by 2035 after cabinet endorsed the 30-year water strategy.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told parliament on Tuesday the new desalination plant would be delivered by 2035 after cabinet endorsed the 30-year water strategy.
One of these supports is realized through collaboration with the State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) in the construction sector, PT Indra Karya (Persero). Through this collaboration, Bank Mandiri distributed assistance worth IDR 2.1 billion for the construction of seawater desalination facilities around the fish auction site (TPI) Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has announced the winning bidders for four of its key conventional independent power plant (IPP) projects – Taiba-1, Taiba-2, Qassim-1, and Qassim-2 – being set up in the kingdom at an investment of nearly SR29 billion ($7.8 billion).
ACWA Power won the bid thanks to its capabilities in the field and pledge to deliver the project with a water levelized tariff of $0.36536 /cubic metre of desalinated water – which would make it the world’s most efficient desalination facility using sea water reverse osmosis technology powered by solar energy.
With tens of thousands of new homes set to be built in Sydney, the NSW government is looking to double the size of the city’s desalination plant to guarantee water supply.
With around six million people expected to call the South-East home by 2046, the government has released the latest plan to shore up the region’s water security. It includes building a second desalination plant by 2035, but the location and cost are yet to be determined.
According to the Moroccan public company, these studies will make it possible to determine the needs in drinking water and irrigation, as well as the resources already mobilised in the cities of Essaouira and Guelmim. The sites for the future plants will also be identified and their surface areas determined.
The EIB is providing the finance as part of the Global Gateway, a European strategy to stimulate smart, clean and secure links in the digital, energy and transport sectors, and to strengthen health, education and research systems worldwide. The loan will be granted through its new 25-year development finance subsidiary EIB Global.
It will be built on the Sunshine Coast but exactly where won’t be known until 2025 after the next election.
The project is estimated to cost between $4 billion and $8 billion depending on the size of the plant.
„One of the options that has been mooted is Kawana,“ Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.
TSG Water Resources, a specialist in water and wastewater treatment facilities for the hospitality industry in Mexico and the Caribbean, has installed a 1.4 million gallon per day (5,400 m3/d) high-recovery seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) system in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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