Abstract: NEOM City in Saudi Arabia is planned to be the first environmentally friendly city in
the world that is powered by renewable energy sources minimizing CO2 emissions to reduce the
eect of global warming according to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. In recent years, Saudi Arabia
has had a problem with water scarcity. The main factors aecting water security are unequal water
distribution, wrong use of water resources and using bad or less ecient irrigation techniques.
This paper is aimed to provide a detailed feasibility and techno-economic evaluation of using several
scenarios of a stand-alone hybrid renewable energy system to satisfy the electrical energy needs for
an environmentally friendly seawater desalination plant which feeds 150 m