Article: United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi To Tender New Pwr,Water Proj In Early 10.

Byline: prashant03

Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, or Adwea, will launch in the first quarter 2010 the tender for a giant power and desalination project aimed at helping meet soaring domestic electricity and water demand, a senior official said Tuesday.

The new complex, to be build and run by the private sector under the so-called independent water and power project, or IWPP, model will have capacity to produce 1,500 megawatts of electricity and between 60 million and 100 million gallons a day of desalinated water, Abdulla Al Nuaimi, Adwea's director of privatization said.

"The location has not been decided, we're still in ...

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