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SAUDI Arabia has begun building the first solar-powered water desalination plant, the first step in a three-part programme to introduce solar energy into the kingdom.
The programme, launched by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), aims to help stabilise future power and water supplies inside Saudi Arabia through the creation of solar-powered desalination facilities.
Saudi Arabia produces 18 per cent of the world’s desalinated water. By building water desalination plants that run on solar energy, the kingdom can reduce operational costs and in turn, reduce consumer costs.
Prince Dr Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad, KACST vice-president for Research Institutes, said: “The programme will reduce the cost of producing desalinated water and of generating power.”
