The Energy Central Company (ECC) of Bahrain has clinched a 22-year Energy Performance Contract (EPC), comprising about 20,000 tonnes of district cooling, for the Saudi Basic Industrial Corporation’s (Sabic) Hadeed facility based at Al-Jubaili in Saudi Arabia, says ECC CEO Khalil Issa.
The district cooling will support both human comfort and process operations. Issa reveals the project is currently under construction, and ECC is expected to be supplying chilled water “within the next year or so.”
Meanwhile, the first modules of the company’s desalination plant at Durrat Al Bahrain “will be operational early next year as well.” The total capacity of the desalination plant, when fully operational, will be 36,000 cubic metres daily (CMD).
ECC has already purchased two temporary seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plants with a total capacity of 2,000 CMD. This will meet the initial irrigation demands at Durrat Al Bahrain, a residential, leisure and tourist resort being built near the southern tip of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Read the full interview with Khalil Issa in the May 2009 print edition of MEP Middle East.
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