Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) Reinforce the Use of Renewable Energy
Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has announced implementation of photovoltaic systems (PV) project, including parts on water surfaces, with a generation capacity of (110) Megawatts. It aims at enhancing applications of renewable energy in the desalination industry and reducing energy consumption used from the grid to less than 2.16 kW/m3 and more than 20% of the average of design power consumption reaching an average of 2.7 kW/h for one cubic meter in the desalination system that is being established in Al-Jubail with a production capacity exceeding one million cubic meters per day as one of the largest plants in the world operating with reverse osmosis (RO) technology and the least in terms of electricity consumption among plants with high production capacities.
The project is part of several schemes that SWCC works on with the aim of providing 300 million Metric Million British Thermal Units (MMBTU) of the consumption of natural gas, in addition to reducing fluid fuel to 10 million tons annually by 2024. This will contribute to reducing operational costs and realizing the highest environmental standards and reducing carbon emissions to up to 34 million tons of carbon emissions, in line with the environmental standards and the Saudi Green Initiative.
SWCC has mobile plants that were designed and manufactured by the corporation itself, which rely on solar energy with a consumption rate not exceeding 2.27 kW/m3, which is a new world record for this category. SWCC seeks to reduce power consumption in these mobile plants to reach 2.0 kW.