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Hassyan IWPP
Set to become one of the largest in the world when finished, the Hassyan power and desalination plant will produce 9,000 megawatts of power and deliver 720 million gallons of desalinated water per day to Dubai.

Dubai’s first venture into utilities sector public private partnerships, the Hassyan power plant is to be constructed in a series of six stages, with the first two phases initially tipped to come online next year.

However, a series of delays and setbacks has seen the project tendered on several occasions, most recently in March this year, with HE Saeed Al Tayer, CEO and managing director of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) saying that the natural gas-fired plant would be ready for commissioning by 2014.

In June, top-level DEWA executives met with representatives from 18 potential developers for the pre-bid conference, with Al Tayer saying: “This IPP is an integral part of DEWA’s strategic direction moving forward.

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look forward to building a unique and strong relationship with the private sector, and adopting the best practices available internationally.” Firms from South East Asia, Japan, Korea, India, USA, Europe and the GCC have all expressed an interest in the project, planned for construction at a site near Abu Dhabi.

The initial phase of the Hassyan development will produce 1,500 megawatts of generating capacity, and was originally to be overseen by Mott Macdonald, who were selected by DEWA to engineer Phase 1’s station, seawater intake and outfall system.

With each phase costing between $2bn and $3bn, estimates for the plant’s total cost come in at up to $18bn. The facility’s primary fuel is to be natural gas with diesel oil as a secondary backup source, and the first phase will include a combined-cycle gas turbine system, built using four F-class gas turbines, four heat recovery steam generators and two back-pressure steam turbines.

The six desalination units onsite will be fed by a 4km canal that’s already under construction, capable of carrying 90,000 gallons of water per second.

GENERATION: 9,000MW
CoMMISSION DATE: 2014
COST: $18BN
COUNTRY: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

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