Seawater desalination costs cut through power plant co-location

Historically, the two key barriers for the wider implementation of seawater desalination have been the costs of water production and the environmental impact of the plant concentrate. An innovative approach for improving the economics of seawater desalination and at the same time reducing its impact on the environment is the co-location of membrane desalination plants with existing coastal power generation stations. In the following article Nikolay Voutchkov describes in detail the co-location concept.