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UU Consortium Preferred Bidder for Adelaide's Desalination Project
21 February 2009
United Utilities Australia is part of the AdelaideAqua consortium which as been named by SA Water as the preferred bidder for the construction and operation of Adelaide’s $1.37 billion desalination plant.
The consortium also comprises Spanish firm Acciona Agua, McConnell Dowell and Abigroup Contractors. United Utilities has a joint venture in Australia with Acciona Agua.
Design and construction of the 50 – gigalitre plant will be undertaken by Acciona Agua. McConnell Dowell AbiGroup. Acciona Agua and UUA will jointly operate and maintain the facility for 20 years.
The plant will provide Adelaide with one quarter of its annual water use and will be powered using sustainable energy sources. It will be constructed to an extremely tight schedule which requires the delivery of first water by December 2010.
It will feature:
- a pre-treatment process that provides high levels of reliability, less energy use and reduced need for chemicals
- a highly efficient reverse osmosis design which will enable more efficient use of seawater extracted, significant energy savings and a smaller plant footprint
- an innovative diffuser for the saline concentrate that will ensure adequate mixing back into the marine environment and ensure Environmental performance criteria.
UUA’s joint venture partner Acciona Agua has substantial overseas experience in the delivery of large scale reverse osmosis seawater desalination plants including
- Torrevieja , Spain which with a capacity of 240 million litres a day is the largest desalination plant in Europe and the second largest in the world
- Carlsbad (204 million litres a day) and Tampa (108 million litres a day), the two largest desalination plants in the United States and
- Thames Gateway (150 million litres a day) the largest desalination plant in the United Kingdom