Az-Zour North Phase 1 IWPP
MED-TVC + power, 486000 m3/day in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Az-Zour
- Coordinates
- 28.750, 48.380
- Technology
- MED-TVC + power
- Capacity
- 486000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$1.6 billion
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Kuwait Authority for PPP
- Contractor
- Hyundai Heavy Industries and Sidem (EPC); Engie and Sumitomo are sponsors
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- PPP
- Award or start year
- 2016
- Commissioned
- 2016-11
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2016-11
Full commercial operation reached on 26 November 2016 under a 40-year energy conversion and water purchase agreement
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Sumitomo Corporation, Completion of Power Plant for Az-Zour North Independent Water and Power Producer Project (12 December 2016). sumitomocorp.com.
- Completion and start of commercial operation on 26 November 2016, 1,500 MW combined cycle and about 480,000 m3/day of water, Kuwait government 60 per cent with Sumitomo and ENGIE 17.5 per cent each, 40-year energy conversion and water purchase agreement with the Ministry of Electricity and Water.
- Desalination and Water Reuse, How we delivered Az Zour North phase one. desalination.biz.
- Ten Sidem multiple effect distillation units of 10.84 MIGD each for 107 MIGD or 486,000 m3/day, 1,539 MW combined cycle, engineering and construction by a Hyundai Heavy Industries and Sidem consortium.
- Sidem, Az Zour North Phase 1 IWPP. sidem-desalination.com.
- 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.
Ten MED-TVC evaporators for Shamal Az-Zour Al-Oula, the first MED units worldwide above 10 MIGD. The Sumitomo release does not name the desalination technology, so the MED attribution rests on Sidem and Desalination and Water Reuse.