In September the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a partnership agreement with Desolenator to further develop the latter’s desalination system. Desolenator’s approach of flash distillation powered by photovoltaics plus solar thermal is very different to the industry mainstream of Reverse Osmosis (RO). The UAE gets 90% of its drinking water and 42% of total water from desalination. The country produces at least 14% of global desalinated water, almost as much as Saudi Arabia or the US, despite having a population of only 10 million. So receiving an endorsement from the UAE, even as the country also pursues multi-billion developments of today’s RO technology, is a big win for Desolenator. Last month we at Rethink spoke to Alexei Levene,…