10 May 2012
MUSCAT -- Bahrain's largest independent power generation and water desalination plant, owned by Al Dur Power & Water Company, was inaugurated earlier this week. The ceremony was attended by more than 600 local, regional and international dignitaries and business leaders and shareholders and partners of the company.
Al Dur has been established to help meet the growing demand in the Kingdom of Bahrain for clean, reliable and competitively-priced power and water. The plant, which began commercial operations in February 2012, has a capacity of 1,234 MW of power and 218,000 m3 per day of the highest quality water in the GCC today.
This is equivalent to approximately one-third of the kingdom's installed power capacity and one-third of its water requirements. With the additional capacity that Al Dur will supply to the national grid of the kingdom, the plant has the potential to transform Bahrain from an importer of power at peak periods of usage to an exporter of power to other GCC countries. The Bahraini Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) is the sole off-taker of the plant output under a 25-year Power and Water Purchase pact.
Al Dur has been developed at a total cost of $2.1 billion by International Power-GDF SUEZ, a world leader in independent power and water generation, and Gulf Investment Corporation, the largest financial investor in power and water projects in the GCC. Its shareholders include a number of local Bahraini institutions.
MUSCAT -- Bahrain's largest independent power generation and water desalination plant, owned by Al Dur Power & Water Company, was inaugurated earlier this week. The ceremony was attended by more than 600 local, regional and international dignitaries and business leaders and shareholders and partners of the company.
Al Dur has been established to help meet the growing demand in the Kingdom of Bahrain for clean, reliable and competitively-priced power and water. The plant, which began commercial operations in February 2012, has a capacity of 1,234 MW of power and 218,000 m3 per day of the highest quality water in the GCC today.
This is equivalent to approximately one-third of the kingdom's installed power capacity and one-third of its water requirements. With the additional capacity that Al Dur will supply to the national grid of the kingdom, the plant has the potential to transform Bahrain from an importer of power at peak periods of usage to an exporter of power to other GCC countries. The Bahraini Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) is the sole off-taker of the plant output under a 25-year Power and Water Purchase pact.
Al Dur has been developed at a total cost of $2.1 billion by International Power-GDF SUEZ, a world leader in independent power and water generation, and Gulf Investment Corporation, the largest financial investor in power and water projects in the GCC. Its shareholders include a number of local Bahraini institutions.
© Oman Daily Observer 2012
