Acwa Power to build $800m desalination plant in Senegal

Acwa Power to build $800m desalination plant in Senegal

Acwa Power, Saudi Arabia’s operator of power generation and desalinated water production plants, will construct a SAR3 billion ($800 million) desalination plant in Dakar, Senegal. The company signed an agreement with Senegal’s ministry of water and sanitation and state-backed National Water Company, to build a 400,000 cubic metres per day desalination plant in Dakar. The […]Acwa Power, Saudi Arabia’s operator of power generation and desalinated water production plants, will construct a SAR3 billion ($800 million) desalination plant in Dakar, Senegal.

The company signed an agreement with Senegal’s ministry of water and sanitation and state-backed National Water Company, to build a 400,000 cubic metres per day desalination plant in Dakar.

The capacity is divided into two phases, each with a production capacity of 200,000 cubic metres per day.

The Saudi company will develop, finance, build and operate the Grand Cote seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology.

The contract duration is 32 years, the company said in a statement to the Saudi stock exchange on Thursday.

Acwa Power expects the project to have a positive financial impact after the first phase becomes operational by Q1 2028.

In December 2023, Raad Al-Saady, vice chairman and managing director of Acwa Power, said the company was targeting future investments in Africa