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.

Solar powered desalination plant saudi arabia.

Saudi arabia is burdened by a limited access to renewable and non renewable sources of water. 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. The plant in jubail was the world s largest desalination plant when it was built in 2009. A new solar powered desalination plant is now being built in the.

A desalination plant in al khafji saudi arabia is powered by fossil fuels. 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. This led to an unsustainable management of this vital resource and pushed the country towards desalination. Abengoa the company building the plant currently has.

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 spanish company has just been awarded a contract to build the world s largest solar powered desalination plant in the kingdom of saudi arabia. In january 2015 advanced water technology awt and abengoa agreed to jointly build the solar powered plant. Chip hires gamma rapho getty images drink up.

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.