YTL Power International Berhad is one of four pre-qualified applicants invited to submit a proposal for Singapore’s fifth desalination plant on Jurong Island. The other three are Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Private Limited, Sembcorp Utilities Private Limited, and Tuas Power Limited. The Public Utilities Board, Singapore’s national water agency, had put up a request for proposals for the development of the desalination plant. To be built under a design-build-own-operate (DBOO) arrangement by 2020, the plant will add another 137,000 cubic metres, or about 30 million imperial gallons per day (mgd), of desalinated water to Singapore’s water supply, enhancing water supply resilience. There are currently two desalination plants in Singapore with a combined capacity of 100 mgd and this can meet up to 25 per cent of Singapore’s current water demand. The third desalination plant is expected to be completed in Tuas by 2017, and the fourth in Marina East by 2020.
