Qatar Electricity & Water Company Announces that Umm Al Houl Power (“UHP”) is delighted completed financial arrangement with internationally syndicated lenders to fund UHP’s on-going project to increase desalinated water production capacity by reverse osmosis membrane technology (“RO Expansion Project”). 

Presently UHP is generating 2,520 MW of electricity and 136.5 MIGD of desalinated water. Upon completion of the RO Expansion Project adding 61.45 MIGD extra water output and raising water production capacity to 197.95 MIGD, UHP will produce approximately 25 percent of electricity and approximately 40% of water of Qatar’s respective production capacity, and will be one of the largest power and desalinated water producers in the Middle East.

Operation of the RO Expansion Project is planned to commence in April 2021 and will be continued until 2043 on a long term basis along with UHP’s current production. As the reliable producer of living essential utility, electricity and water, UHP will continue to contribute to the State of Qatar.