RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has signed an initial agreement with Neutral Fuels for the supply of biofuels to the Kingdom’s vast Red Sea Project. The ACWA Power-led consortium was awarded The Red Sea Development Company’s highest value contract to design, build, operate and transfer the project's sustainable utilities infrastructure in November 2020. Now it has teamed up
Saudi s The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer of an ambitious regenerative tourism project, said it has achieved an overall score of 84/100 in its first assessment and benchmark exercise by Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark.
to build the kingdom s first desalination plant powered by solar and wind energy.
On completion, the plant built by the Red Sea Development Company, in collaboration with renewable drinking water specialists Source Global, will be the largest of its kind in the world.
Our collaboration with @sourcewaterco will empower Saudi businesses in the wider supply chain and further reduce the carbon footprint of #TheRedSea Project. Read more: https://t.co/iem0Tya9Qs#WorldWaterDaypic.twitter.com/s9qbC13Xeu The Red Sea Development Company (@TheRedSeaGlobal) March 22, 2021
The plant has a planned capacity of
two million bottles of water a year and will begin production with 300,000 bottles annually in the next few years, according to Ahmed Ghazi Darwish, chief of staff at Red Sea Development.