KSA’s Acwa Power has surpassed the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) as the world’s largest water project developer outside China, UK-based international water sector publisher Global Water Intelligence said in a statement. The new figures reveal that Acwa Power has 6.8 mn cubic meters (cbm) of gross capacity and 3.2 mn cbm per day of net capacity, where the gross figure represents the total output of plants in which the company holds a stake and net capacity is the amount equivalent to the percentage of stakes it holds.

REMEMBER- Acwa Power has been pushing forward with renewables-powered desalination: The company inaugurated the USD 650 mn Jubail 3A independent water desalination plant with a production capacity of 600k cbm of desalinated water per day in June. The plant was the first to be powered by solar. Last month, the utilities giant also signed an agreement with Japan’s Toray Industries to enhance the energy efficiency of desalination plants.

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