The Shuaiba IWPP steam power plant with integrated seawater desalination facility in Saudi Arabia has started commercial operation. Siemens Energy built the power plant as a turnkey project together with its consortium partner Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. for Shuaibah Water and Electricity Company (SWEC). The overall plant has an installed capacity of 900 megawatts (MW). The seawater desalination plant supplied by Doosan will produce approximately 880,000 cubic meters of drinking water daily for the cities of Makkah, Jeddah, Taif and Al-Baha. The Shuaiba plant is located approximately 110 kilometers south of Jeddah. In addition to turnkey erection of the plant the Siemens scope of supply also encompassed three backpressure steam turbine-generators each rated at 400 MW, the associated electrical equipment and an SPPA-T3000 instrumentation and control system. The power plant is also equipped with one of the world's most advanced flue-gas cleaning plants. Siemens Energy was supported by the Regional Company Siemens Ltd. Saudi Arabia in implementation of the crude oil-fired power plant. By 2024, it is anticipated that the population of Saudi Arabia will have almost doubled to 40 million. New power plants with a combined capacity of at least 3000 MW will be required annually to meet the pronounced increase in power demand. The Kingdom is making significant investments in the expansion of capacities for power and drinking water supply. After Jeddah III, Ghazlan and Al-Khobar, Shuaibah is the fourth large-capacity steam power plant built by Siemens in Saudi Arabia. High-efficiency combined cycle power plants are part of Siemens' Environmental Portfolio. In fiscal 2009, revenue from the Portfolio totaled about 23 billion euros, making Siemens the world's largest supplier of eco-friendly technologies. In the same period, the company's products and solutions enabled customers to reduce their CO2 emissions by 210 million tons. This amount equals the combined annual CO2 emissions of New York, Tokyo, London and Berlin. The Siemens Energy Sector is the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. In fiscal 2009 (ended Sept. 30), energy sector had revenues of approximately 25.8 billion euros and received new orders totaling approximately 30 billion euros and posted a profit of 3.3 billion euros. On Sept. 30, 2009, the energy sector had a work force of more than 85,100.
