Saudi CMA Approves ACWA Power IPO – Saudi Arabia The Saudi CMA approved the request of the International Company for Water and Power Projects (ACWA POWER) application for public offering of 81.2 million shares, representing 11.1 percent of its share capital. The Company’s prospectus will be published within sufficient time prior to the start of the subscription period. The investment value of the company’s portfolio exceeds $66.1 billion, producing 42 gigawatts (GW) of electricity and 6.4 million cubic meters of desalinated water per day, provided as a huge production that meets the needs of state utilities, and according […] Saudi CMA Approves ACWA Power IPO – Saudi ArabiaDME GmbH2021-07-02T06:56:29+02:00
200 MLD desalination plant to come up in Manori – Mumbai – India The BMC and Israel’s IED Technologies have signed a MoU on Monday to prepare a DPR for a 200 MLD desalination plant at Manori. The plant, which will be ready by 2025 and will help reduce the city’s dependence on the monsoon for drinking water, said Maharashtra tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray. “Along with water security for Mumbai and possibilities of capacity augmentation, the desalination plant will help us avoid financial and ecological costs of dam construction. (LINK). 200 MLD desalination plant to come up in Manori – Mumbai – IndiaDME GmbH2021-06-29T12:53:20+02:00
Kuwait to assign consultative house to launch renewable energy enterprises – Kuwait Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects is seeking to assign a consultative entity for studying and promoting enterprises for producing electricity from renewable resources. The authority director, Fadhila Al-Hassan, said on Sunday that the authority is cooperating the Ministry of Electricity and Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to assign the consultative house for that purpose. Al-Hassan said in an interview with KUNA that the most prominent future renewable energy enterprises are Al-Dabdaba power station and the third phase of Al-Shagaya renewable energy project, prospected to put out some 3,000 megawatts. Kuwait to assign consultative house to launch renewable energy enterprises – KuwaitDME GmbH2021-06-28T18:33:57+02:00
MCWD eyes Mangasang Falls as water source – Philippines THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) is now searching for water sources aside from pursuing the construction of desalination plants in Metro Cebu. This hunt for water supply led MCWD chairman Jose Daluz III and directors Francisco “Frank” Malilong Jr., Miguelito Pato and Judelyn Mae Seno to visit Mangasang Falls in the mountain barangay of Tagbao, Cebu City on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Mangasang Falls could supply 200,000 cubic meters of water per day in the rainy season, and 2,000 cubic meters of water per day in the dry […] MCWD eyes Mangasang Falls as water source – PhilippinesDME GmbH2021-06-25T10:53:00+02:00
PROJECTS: Acciona projects in the GCC to boost ESG goals – Saudi Arabia Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona has launched a new five-year master plan – SMP 2025 – to advance its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Ranked top 100 globally in 2020 for economic and ESG indicators, the company is now spearheading a new, ground-breaking sustainability model. Acciona is already a household name in major utility and infrastructure projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, both as a developer and as an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contractor. (LINK). PROJECTS: Acciona projects in the GCC to boost ESG goals – Saudi ArabiaDME GmbH2021-06-24T17:06:50+02:00
DEWA increases its capacity of desalinated water – United Arab Emirates This is part of its efforts to keep pace with the continuous growth in Dubai and meet the growing demand for electricity and water in the emirate. “We work in line with the vision of the wise leadership to develop a world-class infrastructure to keep pace with the growing demand for energy and water and provide excellent services for over a million customers in Dubai according to the highest standards of availability, reliability, safety and efficiency,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of DEWA. Al […] DEWA increases its capacity of desalinated water – United Arab EmiratesDME GmbH2021-06-23T19:03:06+02:00
Dewa hikes desal capacity to 490 MGID per day – United Araba Emirates Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has increased its capacity of desalinated water production has increased to 490 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD) after adding new advanced units at its Jebel Ali Power Plant and Desalination Complex using Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) technology. “We work in line with the vision of the wise leadership to develop a world-class infrastructure to keep pace with the growing demand for energy and water and provide excellent services for over a million customers in Dubai according to the highest standards of availability, reliability, safety […] Dewa hikes desal capacity to 490 MGID per day – United Araba EmiratesDME GmbH2021-06-21T16:04:09+02:00
Seawater desalination unit brings relief to drought-prone Tamil Nadu village – India The Ministry of Science and Technology on Saturday informed that seawater desalination through „solar thermal forward osmosis“ has brought relief to a drought-prone village in Tamil Nadu. Narippaiyur, a village in Ramanathapuram District, a drought-prone area situated in the South-East corner of Tamil Nadu will benefit from 20,000 litres per day of freshwater produced from the seawater – thanks to the solar thermal Forward Osmosis (FO) sea-water desalination system installed in the place. As per the official release by the ministry, the customized demand-driven convergent water solution through FO […] Seawater desalination unit brings relief to drought-prone Tamil Nadu village – IndiaDME GmbH2021-06-20T15:20:40+02:00
ACWA Power Wins Makkah Excellence Award for Rabigh 3 – Saudi Arabia ACWA Power announced receiving the Makkah Excellence Award for Rabigh 3 for water desalination based on reverse osmosis technology. The new desalination plant is designed with a capacity of 600,000 m³ / day of potable water. It is considered one of the largest desalination stations through reverse osmosis in the world, with an innovative design that guarantees efficiency and confidentiality compared to any other station. (LINK). ACWA Power Wins Makkah Excellence Award for Rabigh 3 – Saudi ArabiaDME GmbH2021-06-18T07:24:12+02:00
GE wins contract for substation of KSA’s first clean energy desal plant – Saudi Arbia The Yanbu-4 IWP plant will be the first integrated, seawater reverse osmosis project in the Kingdom that uses clean energy. Scheduled to be operational in 2023, Yanbu-4 will have a capacity of 450,000m3 per day of fresh water to be supplied to households in Makkah and Madinah. Located 140km west of Madinah, near the town of Ar Rayyis on the Red Sea coast of the Kingdom, Yanbu-4 will utilise reverse osmosis technology to supply potable water. (LINK). GE wins contract for substation of KSA’s first clean energy desal plant – Saudi ArbiaDME GmbH2021-06-16T20:07:16+02:00