Shuaibah 3 IWP (2025)
Seawater RO + solar, 600,000 m3/day, with 65 MWp of captive solar in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.680, 39.520
- Technology
- Seawater RO + solar
- Capacity
- 600,000 m3/day, with 65 MWp of captive solar
- Capital cost
- US$821 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saudi Water Partnership Company, 25-year build-own-operate water purchase agreement
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- NOMAC (ACWA Power)
- Finance
- Project finance; ACWA Power 68 per cent at award with Water and Electricity Holding Company (PIF) 32 per cent, ACWA Power share later 47.5 per cent
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2025
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2022-06
ACWA Power and SWPC agreed to restructure the Shuaibah 3 IWPP agreement and replace it with a reverse osmosis plant
- 2022-10
Financial close
- 2025-05
Commercial operation planned
- 2025
Commercial operation reported in the second quarter
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ACWA Power project page, Shuaibah 3 IWP. acwapower.com.
- 600,000 m3/day seawater reverse osmosis at Shuaibah, power from the grid plus 65 MWp captive solar, awarded to an ACWA Power-led consortium with 68 per cent ACWA Power and 32 per cent WEHC (PIF), financial close October 2022, commercial operation planned for May 2025, project cost 821 million US dollars in the text and US$790 million in the key facts table, ACWA Power share shown as 47.5 per cent, the first conversion project from MSF desalination technology to SWRO. Arab News, ACWA Power completes Shuaibah 3 IWP project for US$821m, 28 October 2022. arabnews.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.
US$821 million, 68 per cent ACWA Power equity, 25-year offtake agreement with the Saudi Water Partnership Company. The US$821 million figure is used here because two sources carry it.