Solar Powered Desalination Plant Saudi Arabia

It will be located to the north eastern part of saudi arabia near the kuwait border.

Solar powered desalination plant saudi arabia.

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. 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. A desalination plant in al khafji saudi arabia is powered by fossil fuels. Saudi arabia plans to use a new solar technology to desalinate seawater at neom a mega city that it s developing along the country s northern red sea coast.

In january 2015 advanced water technology awt and abengoa agreed to jointly build the solar powered plant. Abengoa the company building the plant currently has. This led to an unsustainable management of this vital resource and pushed the country towards desalination. 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.

The plant in jubail was the world s largest desalination plant when it was built in 2009. In saudi arabia freshwater is a precious and rare commodity. 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. 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.