Shuaibah 3 IWPP (2010)
Thermal MSF + power, 880,000 m3/day, with 900 MW of power in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.680, 39.520
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 880,000 m3/day, with 900 MW of power
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Water and Electricity Company (offtaker); Shuaibah Water and Electricity Company (project company)
- Developer
- ACWA Power
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- NOMAC (ACWA Power)
- Finance
- Project finance; ACWA Power 30 per cent rising to 62 per cent on completion of the December 2025 purchase of Badeel's 32 per cent
- Award or start year
- 2010
- Commissioned
- 2010
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2010
Commercial operation, the first independent water and power plant in Saudi Arabia
- 2022-06
Power and water purchase agreement restructured so that a new reverse osmosis plant replaces the thermal units
- 2025-12
ACWA Power agreed to buy Badeel's 32 per cent, taking its holding to 62 per cent
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Argaam, ACWA Power acquires 32 per cent stake in Shuaibah IWPP for SAR 843 million, 24 December 2025. argaam.com.
- Saudi Arabia's first independent water and power plant, in operation since 2010, 900 MW and 880,000 m3/day, water and power purchase agreement running to 2030, ACWA Power's holding rising from 30 to 62 per cent after buying Badeel's 32 per cent for SAR 843.32 million.
- Middle East Construction News, ACWA Power completes Shuaibah Expansion II IWP in record time, 25 July 2019. meconstructionnews.com.
- describes the neighbouring Shuaibah IWPP as 900 MW of power and 880,000 m3/day of water.
- ACWA Power project page for the replacement, Shuaibah 3 IWP.
- calls the successor the first conversion project from MSF desalination technology to SWRO, which identifies the IWPP's thermal process.
- Coordinates from OpenStreetMap, Shoaiba IWPP, 900 MW. openstreetmap.org.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.