EWA to auction key Bahrain power and water station site

EWA to auction key Bahrain power and water station site

Bahrain's Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) will tomorrow (February 23) host the auction of Sitra Power and Water Station site in collaboration with Mazad, an auction supervisory company specialising in the sale of corporate assets and also a unit of the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund - Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company.

The site is a large facility and includes a number of structures and specialised equipment, including; six desalination distillers (with a 25 million gallons per day processing capacity), six steam boilers, four 25 MW capacity steam turbines with generators, a 25 MW gas reductions and pumps of various sizes as well as a number of transformers, switches and electrical cables.

Confirming the sale and dismantling of the station site, EWA said the services of the Sitra plant had been suspended in February 2021 on completion of 40 years of production and remained unutilized.

Over the last four decades, when it was in operation, a number of stations with increased capacity were founded, it added.

According to EWA, the station began operations in 1975, with its first phase producing 100 MW of electricity and 5 million gallons of distilled water per day. In 1984, site capacity was increased by 25 MW of electricity and 5