With a total of six units and a total installed capacity of 2,400 megawatts (MW), the plant will generate power for an aluminum smelting plant and provide around one billion liters of drinking water a day for Riyadh with its five million inhabitants.

The order volume for Siemens is more than $1 billion.

Purchaser is a consortium comprising Al-Arrab Contracting Company, Saudi Arabia and the Chinese Sepco III Electric Power Construction Corporation.

The gas turbines were manufactured in the Siemens gas turbine plant in Berlin.

The generators were produced in the Siemens facility in Charlotte, North Carolina in the US.

Siemens is supplying a total of 12 gas turbines, five steam turbines, 17 generators and 10 HRSGs and the entire electrical and I&C equipment for the Ras Al-Khair CCPP and seawater desalination plant.