Kuwait’s $1.7bn Al-Zour North 1 power and desalination plant, Kuwait’s first IWPP project, has started up.
Completion of the plant, with capacity to generate 1.54GW of electricity and desalinate 480,000m3/day of water, brings Kuwaiti capacity to 17.1GW and 2mn m3/d respectively. Testing on the three-unit CCGT plant began in June 2015 (MEES, 24 June). (CONTINUED - 319 WORDS)
