# ACCIONA and Jacobs consortium awarded contract to build Alkimos desalination plant

The Northern Water Partnership consortium, comprising ACCIONA Agua Australia, ACCIONA Construction, and Jacobs Group Australia, was awarded a $2.8 billion contract to design, build, and operate Stage 1 of the Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant in Western Australia, with initial capacity of 50 billion litres per year, commissioning in 2028.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2024-04-12
- Where: Alkimos, Western Australia, Australia
- Value: $1.82B (2.80B AUD)
- Jobs: 155
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 50 billion litres per year
- Products: seawater desalination plant
- Sectors: [Water Treatment Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/water-treatment-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Water Corporation](https://endata.com/companies/295.md) (customer)
- [Jacobs](https://endata.com/companies/15664.md) (supplier)
- [ACCIONA](https://endata.com/companies/15903.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [smartwatermagazine.com](https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/acciona-and-jacobs-consortium-awarded-contract-build-australias-alkimos), 2024-04-12: "Awarding this contract represents another key milestone in this major project which will future proof water supply for more than 2.5 million Western Australians."

---
Data from Endata (https://endata.com/). Announcements are summarized from public sources and may be incomplete; check the linked originals.