Saudi officials tell forum of new ways of conservation, including building micro-grids and sewage treatment plants related to renewable energy There are also plans for the Red Sea Project to set a new standard for sustainable development ABU DHABI: With Saudi Arabia ranking among the top five countries in the world in terms of water scarcity, the Kingdom is changing the way it produces, uses and distributes water to ensure sustainable growth.
km, it’s nearly the size of Belgium, with 90 unspoiled islands, 200 km of coastline, and nearly 50 hotels to be built.” The company plans to operate the largest battery plant in the world, producing 250 megawatts of diversified power, fully renewable, including wind and solar energy, and 56,000 cubic meters of water per day.
“Our sustainability goals are very challenging,” Stahl said.
It’s a resource locally produced and distributed.
But what’s driving this zonal shrinking of the network is the technology across the value chain, from the production through the transmission, distribution and even customer services, that’s making the micro-grid more viable, and more attractive from a technical, commercial and quality-of-service point of view.” The clean and renewable energy revolution is expected to strongly impact the water sector and help minimize climate change.
“A transformation in the energy and water sectors has begun, and fossil fuel domination will fade for desalination.” Saudi Arabia is working to build sewage-treatment plants related to renewable energy, with the private sector, in the cities of Taif, Jubail and Yanbu.
We also have huge projects in Dubai, with the engagement of the private sector, to build infrastructure.
The global oil and gas industry produces 50 million cubic meters per day of a wide variety of water chemistry,” he said.
Robert Owens, business development operations manager at construction company Bechtel, said: “Historically, more than 90 percent of the water produced in that area (the oil and gas industry) is reinjected.
But if you look at the holistic approach to the challenge, it makes an economical difference,” he added.