Officials at the signing ceremony for the Yanbu 4 plant.
Enge-Mowah to develop Yanbu 4 desal plant
01 April 2020
A consortium comprising French multinational utility group Engie and local water desalination company Mowah has been appointed as the developer of Yanbu 4 Independent Water Plant (IWP), a seawater desalination facility to be developed using reverse osmosis (RO) technology.
The desalination plant, which will come up at Badr Governorate in Madinah, will boast a production capacity of 450,000 cu m per day on completion, said the Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC).
Located on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, the new plant will feed the Makkah and Madinah regions with potable water. Yanbu-4 IWP will also include solar energy units to reduce the electricity consumption from the grid, in addition to water tanks with a storage capacity of two operational days, stated SWPC (formerly Saudi Water & Electricity Company).
The Yanbu 4 IWP project agreements were signed by Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture and SWPC Board Chairman Engineer Abdulrahman bin Abdulmohsen Al Fadley.
The Engie-Mowah consortium had emerged the preferred bidder after submitting the lowest levelised water costs of SR1.7446 per cu m compared to FCC Aqualia-HAACO-Alfanar consortium’s cost of SR1.7775 per cu m, Acwa Power-Albabtain-GIC consortium’s SR1.8435 and Marubeni Corporation-Marafiq consortium’s SR1.9168.
Saudi Water Partnership Company CEO Engineer Khalid Bin Zwaid Al Qureshi said the project will launch commercial operation in the first quarter of 2023.
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