French energy group Engie has announced that the 1,539 MW Azzour North One Independent Water & Power Project (IWPP) in Kuwait has started full commercial operations.
The US$1.7bn facility is the first IWPP project in Kuwait. It is is owned and operated by Shamal Azzour Al-Oula (40% owned by a consortium of Engie, Sumitomo and A.H. Al Sagar & Brothers and remaining 60% owned by the Government of Kuwait). The facility has the capacity to generate 10% of Kuwait’s power consumption as peak capacity and can produce 20% of the country's water with 405,000 m3/day. Power and water will be sold to the Kuwait Ministry of Electricity and Water under a 40-year long-term Energy Conversion and Water Purchase Agreement.
The project is part of an overall IWPP project in the Azzour area, to be developed over five phases, for a total capacity of 4,800 MW of electricity and approximately 1.1 mcm/d of desalinated water.
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