Taweelah A2 IWPP
Thermal MSF + power, 51 MIGD (about 232,000 m3/day) in United Arab Emirates.
Operational
The record
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Location
- Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi
- Coordinates
- 24.763, 54.683
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 51 MIGD (about 232,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Emirates CMS Power Company (ADWEA 60%, CMS Energy 40% at financial close; later TAQA 60%, Marubeni 34%, JGC 6%)
- Developer
- CMS Energy
- Contractor
- Siemens (EPC, three gas turbines and two back-pressure steam turbines)
- Operator
- Emirates CMS Power Company
- Finance
- Project finance, the first independent water and power project financing in Abu Dhabi
- Award or start year
- 1999
- Commissioned
- 2001-10
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1999
Plant licensed, the first scheme under Abu Dhabi's partial privatisation of water and electricity
- 2001-10
Commercial operation, the emirate's first IWPP to reach it
- 2019
TRANSCO records 51 MIGD of MSF capacity and a power and water purchase agreement expiring 2022
- 2021
Retirement of the 51 MIGD assumed in TRANSCO's planning statement, no confirmation of closure found
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Abu Dhabi Department of Energy, Nine major water desalination plants enhance Abu Dhabi's water security (22 July 2020). doe.gov.ae.
- Emirates CMS Power Company at Taweelah, licensed 1999, 231,800 m3/day.
- TRANSCO, 2019 Seven Year Water Planning Statement (2020-2026), June 2019, Table 4.3 Existing Production Plant Site and Capacities by Technology. saudigulfprojects.com.
- Taweelah A2 (Emirates CMS Power Company), 51 MIGD MSF, contract expiry 2022, retirement of the 51 MIGD assumed from end 2021. Gulf News, Taweelah A1 commissioned. gulfnews.com.
- ADWEA states that Taweelah A1 was the second plant to reach commercial operation, after Taweelah A2. Power Technology market data, Taweelah A2 IWPP. power-technology.com.
- Commissioned October 2001, 777 MW, Siemens EPC, current owners TAQA 60%, Marubeni 34%, JGC 6%; this page is bot-walled to plain curl and returns 403. Gulf News, Special Report: Abu Dhabi power privatisation shows the way ahead, 8 September 2001. gulfnews.com.
- 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.
ADWEA signed an agreement with CMS Energy to develop Taweelah A2, the UAE's first independent water and power project.