L&T wins Amaala utilities EPC work

L&T wins Amaala utilities EPC work

France's EDF and Abu Dhabi's Masdar won the $2bn contract to develop Amaala's multiple utilities infrastructure in September last year

The team that won the contract to develop and operate a multi-utilities infrastructure for the 4,155 square-kilometre Amaala tourism scheme in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea has selected a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contractor (EPC) for the project.The construction arm of India's Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been chosen as the turnkey EPC contractor to establish various systems related to renewable energy generation and utilities of the project, L&T announced on 27 December."In line with the ambition of going beyond sustainability and having a regenerative impact on the environment, the project awarded to L&T will have an optimised off-grid renewable energy system comprising of 250MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant and a 700 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system," L&T said.Related read: Masdar eyes major Saudi expansionThe scope for power systems also involves biofuel-based internal combustion engines, three gas-insulated substations, high-voltage transmission lines and medium-voltage distribution networks.The project's water systems scope involves constructing a 37 million-litres-a-day- day (MLD) seawater reverse osmosis plant, 6 MLD sewage treatment plants, marine works including intake and outfall, tank farms, potable water network, wastewater network and treated sewage effluent network.Red Sea Global awarded the Amaala multi-utilities contract