Abu Dhabi’s Taweelah plant ‘world’s largest operating RO facility’

Abu Dhabi’s Taweelah plant ‘world’s largest operating RO facility’

Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec), a leading company in the integrated coordination of planning, purchasing, and supply of water and electricity across the UAE, has announced that the production of desalinated water using low-carbon intensive reverse osmosis (RO) technology from the Taweelah RO facility has surpassed 90 per cent capacity. This makes it the world’s largest operating RO facility.

Upon reaching full operations, Taweelah RO will supply 909,200 cu m per day of potable water, it stated.

Taweelah RO is owned by Taqa Group (20%), Mubadala (40%) and Acwa Power (40%), with Ewec procuring the water from Taweelah RO for the next 30 years as part of the Water Purchase Agreement signed in 2019.

It is Ewec’s fourth operational desalination plant with RO capacity, joining Mirfa 1, and the Fujairah F1 and Fujairah F2 hybrid water desalination and power plants.

Ewec has also commissioned the development of four additional low-carbon intensive water production facilities, including Mirfa 2 RO, Shuweihat 4 RO, and two standalone RO water desalination plants as part of the Abu Dhabi Islands RO Independent Water Project.

The Abu Dhabi utility group said its adoption of low-carbon intensive RO water desalination technology is a key pillar of its strategic initiative to decouple