One consortium has been prequalified for each of the categories of up to 400,000 m3/day and 200,000 m3/day.
The program aims to launch multiple projects with a total capacity of 8.85 million m3/day by 2050, with the first phase planned to generate 3.35 million m3/day by 2025.
Egypt’s water desalination programme entails the launch of several projects covering a total planned capacity of 8.85 million m3/day by 2050 of which 3.35 million m3/day is planned by 2025 as the (“First Phase”). The programme aims at attracting foreign and local strategic investors with the key objectives of developing, constructing & operating the plants while powering them using renewable energy sources and aiming to transfer technology and localize manufacturing of key desalination components.
(MENAFN– Daily News Egypt) Ramy Ghandour, CEO of Metito Utilities Limited, which specializes in investing in water assets, operating smart water management solutions and alternative energy, said that the AWID platform, which was launched last month in cooperation with the British Investment Corporation, is studying a number of water desalination projects in Egypt.
The project is a part of Egyptian government’s strategy to increase the country’s desalinated water supply by 8.8 million cubic meters of water daily by 2050.
The plant will treat water fed from the Red Sea into demineralised water to feed high-pressure steam boilers as well as low-salinity water for cooling towers.
The delivery of the plant is expected in Q1 2024.
The plant will have an overall footprint of a football stadium with a total capacity of 30,000mÂł per day.
The plant will be fed with water from the Red Sea and will be treated to provide high-purity demineralised water to feed high-pressure steam boilers as well as low-salinity make-up water for cooling towers.
It will occupy an area of 714m2 – like a football stadium – with an overall capacity of 30,000 cu m/day, stated Punzo.
After nearly three years of work, Hassan Allam Construction is completing the New Mansoura seawater desalination plant. The plant was recently commissioned, following the inauguration by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi of the first phase of the Mansoura New Town in northern Egypt. The reverse osmosis plant has a capacity of 80,000 m3 per day.
Egypt, which recently hosted the COP27 U.N. climate talks and is trying to boost lagging investment in renewables, also aims to start production at a series of proposed green hydrogen projects in 2025-2026, Ayman Soliman told the Reuters NEXT conference.
Egypt depends almost entirely on the Nile for fresh water, and faces rising water scarcity for its population of 104 million. The desalination programme aims to generate 3.3 million cubic metres of water daily in the first phase, and eventually reach 8.8 million cubic metres daily at a cost of $8 billion.
In total, the programme aims to award contracts for the equivalent of more than 3 million m3/d of desalination capacity over the next 18-24 months.