Financial close for US$650mn desalination PPP in Saudi Arabia

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Financial close for US$650mn desalination PPP in Saudi Arabia

ACWA Power, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants, announced the successful signing of senior financing agreements for the US$650 million Jubail-3A IWP. The project is the fourth seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination project to be awarded in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the last 3 years, as part of the largest public-private partnership (PPP) desalinated water procurement program in the world.

The utility-scale project had been awarded to the consortium led by ACWA Power, in association with Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) and Al Bawani Water and Power Company (AWP), earlier this year at a world-record tariff of c.41 US Cents per m3 for desalinated potable water.

The water purchase agreement was signed on May 21, 2020, by the Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) in its capacity as the off-taker of the project.

The transaction is financed through limited recourse ring-fenced project financing with Al Rajhi Bank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), Riyad Bank, and Mizuho Bank being the initial mandated lead arrangers. In addition, Riyad Bank and Bank AlJazira have already provided equity bridge loans for the transaction earlier this month.

The commercial operation date of the plant is scheduled towards the end of calendar year 2022.

Jubail-3A IWP will utilize reverse osmosis (RO) technology to yield a capacity of 600,000 cubic meters a day. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the project was awarded to a consortium of SEPCOIII, Power China and Abengoa. The operations and maintenance agreement was signed with an affiliate of First National Operations & Maintenance Co. Ltd. (NOMAC)

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