Shuqaiq 2 IWPP
Seawater RO + power, 212,000 m3/day, with 850 MW of power in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuqaiq
- Coordinates
- 17.660, 42.080
- Technology
- Seawater RO + power
- Capacity
- 212,000 m3/day, with 850 MW of power
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Shuqaiq Water and Electricity Company; power and water purchase agreement with the Saudi Water Partnership Company
- Developer
- ACWA Power
- Contractor
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (power and desalination plant); Areva, now Alstom (380 kV GIS substation)
- Operator
- NOMAC
- Finance
- Project finance, build-own-operate; PIF among the shareholders, ACWA Power sold its 32 per cent holding
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2010-05
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2007-02
Power and water purchase agreement and operation and maintenance agreement signed
- 2010-05
Commercial operation on 1 May 2010
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Shuqaiq Water and Electricity Company, company website. sqwec.com.
- 850 MW of power and 212,000 m3/day of water, three Arabian heavy crude oil-fired boilers, three condensing steam turbines and one reverse osmosis unit with 16 trains, at Shuqaiq in Jazan, power and water purchase agreement signed 28 February 2007 with SWPC, operation and maintenance agreement signed the same day with NOMAC, commercial operation 1 May 2010, grid connection through a 380 kV GIS substation built by Areva, now Alstom, with MHI building the power and desalination plant.
- US-Saudi Business Council, 7 January 2021. ussaudi.org.
- records Shuqaiq II as completed in late 2010. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap, Shuqaiq 2 IWPP, 850 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.