Al-Khairan Phase 1 IWPP
Seawater RO + power, 33 MIGD (about 150,000 m3/day) per the procurer, with 1,800 MW of power. Some trade reporting gives 125 MIGD, about four times larger, which does not reconcile with KAPP's own figure in Kuwait.
In tender
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Al-Khairan
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO + power
- Capacity
- 33 MIGD (about 150,000 m3/day) per the procurer, with 1,800 MW of power. Some trade reporting gives 125 MIGD, about four times larger, which does not reconcile with KAPP's own figure
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- In tender
- Owner or client
- Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects with the Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021-09
partnerships authority lists Al-Khiran at 1.8 GW and 125 MIGD ahead of developer prequalification
- 2025-08
request for proposals issued to five prequalified bidders
- 2026-05
final bid deadline after three extensions
- 2026-06
two proposals opened and moved to technical assessment
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait advances Al Khairan Phase 1 IWPP tender with receipt of two bids. smartwatermagazine.com.
- 1,800 MW and 125 MIGD, request for proposals issued August 2025 to five prequalified entities, deadline extended from 31 December 2025 to 31 March 2026, then 30 April and finally 31 May 2026, bids opened June 2026 from a TAQA, A. H. Al Sagar and JERA consortium and from ACWA Power with Gulf Investment Corporation.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait moves ahead with plans to increase its desalination capacity (8 September 2021). smartwatermagazine.com.
- Al-Khiran at 1.8 GW and 125 MIGD ahead of prequalification.
- Neither source states the desalination process.
- Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects, Al-Khairan phase 1 project page. kapp.gov.kw.
- 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 33 MIGD alongside 1,800 MW. The site serves an incomplete TLS chain, so a strict link checker may reject it.