A consortium comprising ACCIONA and Aqualia has been awarded a contract by the Balearic Water and Environmental Quality Agency (Abaqua) to operate, maintain, and conserve the three desalination plants in Ibiza for the next four years.
The contract, worth a total of €14.2 million, can be extended for an additional year.
The two awarded lots include the management of the Santa Eulària and San Antonio desalination plants, as well as the Ibiza Town desalination plant and the interconnection network of 74 kilometers of pipelines that connects the three facilities.
These three plants serve the five municipalities of Ibiza island (Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Santa Eulària des Riu, Sant Joan de Labritja, Sant Antoni de Portmany, and Eivissa) and have a combined production capacity of 44,500m³ per day, equivalent to the water volume of 18 Olympic swimming pools, distributed through 19 supply points.
ACCIONA and Aqualia have been jointly managing the operation of the desalination plants in Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and Santa Eulària, as well as the upstream water supply network.
Vast experience
ACCIONA is a world leader in reverse osmosis desalination, the most sustainable, advanced and widely used technique in the sector, capable of improving water quality and reducing the impact on the environment. Reverse osmosis produces 6.5 times fewer CO2 emissions than conventional desalination technologies.
ACCIONA has designed, built and operated some of the world’s most important desalination plants, such as the Port Stanvac plant in Adelaide (Australia), the Al Khobar 1 and 2 plants in Saudi Arabia, the Tampa plant in Florida (US) and, more recently, it was awarded the contract for the construction of the largest desalination plant in Africa, in Casablanca (Morocco).
In Spain, it has designed, built and maintained for 18 years one of the largest desalination plants in Europe, the one in Torrevieja (Alicante), with a capacity of 240,000m³ per day.
Recently, it has won major desalination contracts to guarantee water supply for the agricultural sector and for irrigation in areas with high water stress, such as the operation and maintenance of the Campo Dalías desalination plant in Almería, Spain.
Source :ACCIONA
