Solar Powered Desalination Plant Saudi Arabia

The world s first solar powered large scale desalination plant with siemens austria know how use of renewable energy reduces co2 emissions and operating costs customer issues siemens austria follow up order to equip eight further plants in saudi arabia.

Solar powered desalination plant saudi arabia.

A spanish company has just been awarded a contract to build the world s largest solar powered desalination plant in the kingdom of saudi arabia. The plant in jubail was the world s largest desalination plant when it was built in 2009. Chip hires gamma rapho getty images drink up. A saudi arabia company is to build the world s first large scale solar powered water desalination plant using solar pv to provide much of its power needs during daylight hours.

In saudi arabia freshwater is a precious and rare commodity. If saudi arabia and solar power don t look quite right together it s time to shake off that 1970s oil crisis dust and take a look at the country s recent forays into renewable energy. The plant will desalinate 60 000 cubic metres of seawater per day enough to provide the city of al khafji a stable supply of drinking water. A desalination plant in al khafji saudi arabia is powered by fossil fuels.

In january 2015 advanced water technology awt and abengoa agreed to jointly build the solar powered plant. To be built in al khafji city the al khafji desalination plant will be one of the world s first large scale solar powered desalination plants. It will be located to the north eastern part of saudi arabia near the kuwait border. A new solar powered desalination plant is now being built in the.

Saudi arabia is burdened by a limited access to renewable and non renewable sources of water.