In partnership with Canadian architect Ayrie Cunliffe, The Loreto Bay Company hoped to incorporate a seawaterdesalination plant and a 500-acre wind farm.
It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawaterdesalination plant.
The demand for drinking water grew sixfold in the 20th century and it is expected to increase another 40 percent by 2025, according to the United Nations, making desalination of seawater a necessity.
Poseidon wants to build its desalination project adjacent to this power plant, a plant that cools its generators by piping in seawater from half a mile out at sea.