ABB Ltd. won an order to design and deliver 420 kilovolt (kV) high voltage gas insulated switchgear (GIS) that will facilitate the supply of power to a new desalination facility and support the grid integration of a new 2.5 gigawatts (GW) power generation plant. These new facilities are being developed by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC). The order was received from the Al Fanar Group.

The desalination plant, which is scheduled to be commissioned in June 2014, is located in Yanbu Industrial City, a major port on the Red Sea in the Al Madinah province of western Saudi Arabia. The plant will have a capacity to produce 550,000 cubic meters of desalinated water per day.