Vital power transmission line is inaugurated

Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity and Water Authority Shaikh Nawaf bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, inaugurated the vital power line linking the Seef and Prince Salman City districts yesterday.

Shaikh Nawaf said that the 12km-long 220kV line is considered the main feeder for the Prince Salman City because of the importance of increasing the reliability and safety of the electrical network. He said this contributes to providing power to the Northern Province in general and the Prince Salman City in particular.

“It also helps private developers’ projects with the required reliable source of energy.” He said that this electrical line is of exceptional and vital importance in securing the requirements of the electrical connection between the electricity network in Bahrain and the GCC electrical grid in relation to the exchange of electrical energy, especially in emergency situations, and as an important factor in enhancing the reliability of Bahrain’s electrical grid.

He said this is another project package to connect fifteen 220 kV substations and forty-eight 66 kV substations for the development of a 220 kV and 66 kV transmission network with high voltage cables, at a total cost of BD 473 million. ALS Korea, a leading company, manufactured and supplied electrical cables and installed them along with several Bahraini contracting companies, while the implementation of this package was supervised by the Irish International Electric Company