Hadera Desalination
Seawater RO, 127 million m3/year in Israel.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Israel
- Location
- Hadera
- Coordinates
- 32.470, 34.890
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 127 million m3/year
- Capital cost
- US$430 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- State of Israel (Water Desalination Administration)
- Contractor
- H2ID (IDE Technologies 50%, Shikun & Binui 50%)
- Operator
- H2ID
- Finance
- Project finance; EIB loan of EUR 25.22 million for the 2009 extension
- Award or start year
- 2010
- Commissioned
- 2010
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2009-06
EIB signs EUR 25.22 million for the 27 million m3/year extension
- 2009
first desalinated water produced
- 2010
commercial operation begins under a 25-year BOT
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- World Bank, Water Management in Israel: Key Innovations and Lessons Learned (2017), Table 4.2 Major Seawater Desalination Plants in Israel. documents1.worldbank.org.
- Hadera listed as 2010, 25-year BOT, IDE 50% and Shikun U'Binui 50%, US$0.72/m3, 127 million m3/year, estimated capex US$0.43 billion.
- Legislative Council of Hong Kong Research Office, Fact Sheet: Seawater desalination in Israel, April 2017. legco.gov.hk.
- Capacity raised from 100 to 127 million m3/year, estimated total project cost US$377 million including the expansion, 2015 price US$0.65/m3, two independent sub-plants with a dedicated natural gas power plant.
- European Investment Bank project record, Hadera Desalination Plant Extension (20090052), signed 11 June 2009. eib.org.
- EUR 25.22 million signed for an added 27 million m3/year on a 100 million m3/year plant, promoter H2ID Ltd.
- Shikun & Binui, Desalination Facility Hadera. shikunbinui.com.
- BOT project on about 18 acres beside the Orot Rabin power plant, gives 130 million m3/year and 2009. Israel Desalination Society, Hadera Desalination Plant (bot-walled, HTTP 403 to curl, read in browser). ildesal.org.il.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
gives 137 million m3/year and 525,000 m3/day and places the plant inside the Rabin Lights power station grounds. Coordinates are the Orot Rabin power station site from OpenStreetMap, the grounds in which the sources place the plant.