Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ‒ ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor, and operator of power generation, water desalination and green hydrogen plants worldwide, has signed water purchase agreements for the 600,000 cubic metre per day Rabigh 4 Independent Water Plant (IWP) in Saudi Arabia.
Acwa Power won the contract for the Rabigh 4 project, which has a capacity of 600,000 cubic metres per day, after responding to a request for proposals put forward by the off-taker.
In a Tadawul statement today, April 12, the company said the plant will operate with the reverse osmosis technology, at a capacity of up to 600,000 cubic meters (m3)/day.
A specialist in the electrochemical industry and leader in sustainable technologies and in the emerging green hydrogen industry, De Nora said following this Jubail facility will become the largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in the world, producing up to 1 million cu m of seawater per day.
…the proposed 150,000 m3/day is targeted for commercial launch in 2029
Leading Saudi developer, investor, and operator of power generation, water desalination and green hydrogen plants, ACWA Power has signed water purchase agreements for the Rabigh 4 Independent Water Plant (IWP), which will have a 600,000 cubic metre per day production capacity.
Wetico, a leading Saudi integrated solutions provider in water and wastewater sector, has announced that it has secured contracts for two seawater desalination plants in the Algerian cities of El Taref and Bejaia, each with a 300,000-cu-m-per-day capacity.
Mirfa 2 Reverse Osmosis will become the UAE’s third largest low-carbon intensive RO plant once fully operational, said a statement.
M2 RO will desalinate seawater using low-carbon intensive RO technology to produce up to 120 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD) of potable water, equivalent to approximately 550,000 cu m per day, sufficient to meet the water demand of up to 210,000 households in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.Â
The Sorek 2 project, the largest water desalination plant in the world, is on the starting line, and already seven companies, including four foreign ones, have registered for a preliminary call for tenders to put this ambitious project in place. This plant, which should start operating in eight years, will desalinate 200 million cubic meters of seawater per year. With the other desalination plants already present in the country, Israel will in future be able to produce 85% of its annual drinking water consumption.
With the population projected to rise from 9.5 million in 2022 to between 15 and 25 million by 2065, the country would still need to virtually quadruple its desalination capacity, even if population growth slows from more than 2.0% to 0.8%.