SWPC announced the appointment of the consortium comprising ACWA Power, Gulf Investment Corporation and Al Bawani Water & Power Company as the Preferred Bidder for the development, design, financing, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of Jubail 3A IWP of 600,000 m3/day.

The Project will be located south of Jubail City to feed Riyadh, Qassim, and Eastern Provinces with potable water. The Project will include storage tanks of one-day production as well as in-house solar power to reduce the power consumption from the network.  

Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power led consortium has submitted the lowest Levelized Water Cost of 1.54861 SAR/Cu.m.

SWPC will purchase the output and entire capacity of the project, under a Water Purchase Agreement (WPA) for a period of 25 years. Power supply to the project will be facilitated from the high voltage network consist of 380kV Substation and 380kV Overhead Transmission line.