Shuaiba North Power and Desalination
Thermal MSF + power, 45 MIGD (205,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Shuaiba
- Coordinates
- 29.036, 48.154
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 45 MIGD (205,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- US$1.26 billion
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- Mitsui and Fisia Italimpianti (EPC); Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Doosan, GE and Siemens as subcontractors
- Operator
- TNB Remaco and Kharafi National joint venture until mid-2020
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2010
- Commissioned
- 2012
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2010
Mitsui and Fisia Italimpianti start the engineering, procurement and construction contract for 778 MW and 45 MIGD of multi-stage flash capacity
- 2012
plant completed
- 2018
power and water load factors fall to about 55 per cent
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.
- Power Technology, Kuwait North Shuaiba power plant scheme faces challenges (13 March 2020). power-technology.com.
- 778 MW net and 45 MIGD of multi-stage flash capacity in three units, EPC by Mitsui and Fisia Italimpianti over 2010 to 2012, project value US$1.26 billion, client the Kuwaiti Electricity and Water Ministry; power and water load factors around 55 per cent by 2018 and 2019. Curl with a desktop user agent returns 403 on this host, a bot wall; the page opens normally in a browser.
- Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
- Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
- Frontiers dates Shuaiba North to 2011 and gives 210,000 m3/day.
- Coordinates added on 20 September 2026 from Global Energy Monitor, Shuaiba North power plant. gem.wiki.
- 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.
which gives 29.0359 48.1536 and marks the position exact. Reverse geocoding returns Shuaiba Industrial East in Ahmadi governorate and the point lies 0.29 km from the OpenStreetMap coastline. It sits about 0.4 km north of the register's Shuaiba South coordinate, which matches two stations sharing the Shuaiba complex.