📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
To Connect Masirah Island off Oman’s eastern seaboard to its transmission system via a subsea power cable.
Description:
In line with its long-term strategy to build a unified national grid that provides reliable and cost-competitive electricity to consumers, Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC) plans to connect Masirah. Island off Oman's eastern seaboard to its transmission system via a subsea power cable – a first such large-scale undertaking of this kind. The cable – spanning a total distance of 33 kilometres under the Masirah Channel – is proposed to extend from a 132 kV overhead transmission running 60 kilometres from Mahout on the mainland all the way to the coast. When operational by around late 2026, the project will help end Masirah Island's longstanding dependence of diesel-powered electricity generation and enable supplies from a national grid that is being increasingly served by solar and wind-based power generation. The project, managed by the Oman Electricity Transmission Company, aims to develop the island, improve the efficiency and integration of the national electricity transmission network, reduce fossil fuel (diesel) consumption, which will result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the cost of energy production.
