Dubai Plans to Build First Solar-Powered Desalination Plant in Desert City
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
This year, Dubai will seek partners to build its first solar-powered desalination plant as the emirate tries to diversify away from burning fossil fuels to increase its water supply, reports Anthony Dipaola at Bloomberg.
The plant, using reverse osmosis technology, will have capacity to produce 120 million gallons a day of drinkable water by 2024, Chief Executive Officer Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said in Dubai. DEWA is also developing a reservoir to hold as much as 6 billion gallons of water reserves, and the utility currently stores about 700 million gallons, Al Tayer said at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
The solar facility will be able to store energy that it produces, allowing the desalination plant to operate at night. The utility’s generating capacity is 10,927 MW, with a desalination capacity of 470 million imperial gallons a day.
The news was shared in an interview with the head of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.
Source: Bloomberg
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