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DESALINATION
COST OF WATER WATER |
The basic key factors which combined lead to the resulting low costs clean water in case of the desalination process to be used by Lion Energy are: 1)high efficiency and low cost in generating the thermal and mechanical energy, 2)low energy consumption and high energy recovery ratio in the distillation process, 2)low cost capital investment, no scaling, low maintenance and low components replacement cost.
The final cost for the desalinated water in case of the plants to be built by Lion Energy shall be influenced to some extent by: 1)cost of funds, 2)site specifics: land cost, plant gradient/aquifer level, brine disposal solution, 3)cost of local labor for the civil engineering and assembly contract work 4)economy of scale determined by the size of the plant, etc., but it is safe to estimate though that the cost of resulting clean water in case of Enelin plants shall be less than EUR .30/cubic meter).
Even not counting the obvious environmental benefits of solar desalination, at under .3 EUR/m3 of clean water, the Lion Energy solar desalination plants could become a competitive source of clean water.
The fresh water is a limited resource in most markets and the general current trend is that the cost of freshwater is going up. The cost of just purifying fresh water (excluding the cost of distribution) is currently in most markets between 25 and 30 cents/cubic meter.
Lion Energy is dedicated to become a low cost, major distributor of modular, integrated equipment for the production of clean water in Greece and the Middle East Area.
Assuming a stabilized large scale production of the majority of the components in an East European plant the Lion Energy solar desalination plants are estimated to cost approx. EUR 400/m3/day including own source of energy) and the resulting cost of water (assuming a 10 years amortization schedule and a 9% cost of funds) under. EUR 0.3/m3 of clean water. (see 10 year projection for
the first desalination plant in Crete).
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