Saudi Arabia's largest privatized water plant and electricity in the world

SR 500 billion investment in both the Kingdom within 10 years

U.S. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Water and Electricity, Dr. Mohammed Al Saud Arabia, "The volume of investments in the sectors of water and electricity in Saudi Arabia during the next ten years, up to 500 billion riyals, and expected to reach the maximum load to which 75 thousand MW.
The Al Saud, during the opening of "Exhibition and Forum Eighth Saudi Water and Electricity and Power Generation 2012", in the Exhibition Centre Dhahran International in Dammam, today, that work was underway to privatize the station head of good that is being done, which is the largest desalination plant for water and electricity production in the world, and a production capacity of million cubic meters of water per day, and more than 2400 MW electricity, but it did not refer to when that will happen and the way it will be through privatization.
He pointed out that the actual capacity to generate electricity in the Kingdom amounted to 51.148 MW to meet the demand for electricity, adding that the government has given the problem of water shortage special attention to the fact that water, an essential and important barometer in assessing the economic efficiency in State enterprises and the private sector, and adopted many of the projects task, especially in Desalination of salt water that represents a strategic choice, for a number of desalination plants of the General Organization for Water Desalination, 27 stations along four desalination plants belonging to the private sector.
Actual capacity
On the other hand, said Chief Executive Officer of Dhahran International Exhibitions Muhammad Husseini, said that the Kingdom is witnessing many developments in the sector of water and electricity and power generation in order to overcome the problems of water scarcity and meet the growing demand for electricity, as well as new mechanisms used in the production of energy, which requires the existence of an event specialist sheds light on all aspects of the industry challenges and strategic solutions, and in its eighth year proved "exhibition and the Saudi International Water, electricity and power generation," 2012 that one of the most important platforms of local and international agencies to meet and interact between interested people and specialists of everything related to the water sector, electricity and energy.
He indicated that the forum will discuss the most important strategies and techniques to improve the production and distribution of water and electricity in the Kingdom of the presence of more than 40 researchers and specialists from inside and outside the Kingdom. And participates in the organization of its activities: Regulatory Authority of Electricity and Cogeneration, and the National Water Company, and the General Organization for Water Desalination, and the Saudi Electricity Company, and the International Association for Water, and the International Foundation for Development.
He said that the exhibition, which lasts three days, attended by more than 100 leading company locally and internationally, Bahrain, Oman and United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the United States, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Korea, India, Belgium, China, to present each of them the latest techniques for the water sector, electricity and power generation equipment transport and distribution tubing and a central control systems, pumps and water desalination plants, reservoirs and sewage management systems and production technology and dual communication systems obstetric and distribution systems and turbines.