Capacity: 120 million m3/year
An award-winning, milestone plant for the desalination industry.
When completed, Ashkelon was by far the world’s largest and most advanced desalination plant, with a huge capacity of up to 330,000 m3/day and with extremely high efficiency levels, the Ashkelon plant achieved one of the world’s lowest ever prices for desalinated water.
In 2010, due to the unmatched success of the plant, it was expanded by nearly 20% to 392,000 m3/day, providing clean water for more than a million people.
The plant sets a new benchmark for low cost of desalinated water and was the first to use IDE’s proprietary Pressure Center Design, Triple Line Intake, ERS {Energy Recovery System) and a unique, patented Boron Removal System for increased efficiency and significantly reduced water costs.
The plant got a Global recognition by GWl’s “Desalination Plant of the Year” award in 2006.
Project type: Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)- 25 years