Muscat: Engineer Yousef bin Mohammed Al Mahrouqi, Head of Technical Affairs at Nama Electricity Distribution Company, said the company has rolled out several power development projects across Al Dakhiliyah. These include upgrading the capacity of the Adam 33 kV station and establishing two new substations in Birkat Al Mawz and the Samail Industrial Area at a cost exceeding RO 5.1 million. The Birkat Al Mawz station was operational before last summer, while the remaining two stations are expected to enter service in the first quarter of 2026.

Additional works include reconfiguring voltage feeders at the Adam network station and testing and commissioning 11/33 kV transformer power and control cables. A secondary substation in Al-Mu’aymir, Nizwa, with a capacity of 3×20 MVA has been completed at a cost of more than RO 2.8 million and is scheduled to enter service in January 2026. Meanwhile, a 2×6 MVA substation in Samail Industrial City has reached 95 percent completion and will be operational soon. The Al-Bashayer substation, upgraded from 2×6 to 3×6 MVA, entered service on March 22, 2025, at a cost of RO 1.7 million.

Looking ahead, Nama Electricity plans new projects including a main substation in Nizwa-2 with a capacity of 3×20 MVA, upgrading the Basya substation from 2×6 to 2×20 MVA, and carrying out civil maintenance works across several states. Al Mahrouqi also noted that 287 SMEs were registered with the company by the end of 2024, alongside six graduates hosted from the “Preparation” programme and 660 training opportunities provided to university and college students.

On the water front, Engineer Ahmed bin Nasser Al-Abri, Director General of Projects for the Western and Central Sectors at Nama Water Services, said the company continues to execute strategic projects to strengthen water security in the governorate. Al Dakhiliyah’s water system currently includes 16 main pumping stations, 131 reservoirs, and a network extending 3,782 km, serving around 71,300 subscribers by 2025. Twelve wastewater treatment plants operate with a combined capacity exceeding 10,300 cubic metres per day, covering 11 percent of the population, while overall water network coverage stands at 72 percent.

Among the flagship projects completed is the RO 128 million Al Dakhiliyah water transmission line reinforcement project, which includes 15 reservoirs, a strategic 350,000-cubic-metre reservoir in Samail, five pumping stations and 174 km of transmission lines. The company also implemented the RO 41 million Jabal Al Akhdar water network, benefiting about 4,300 subscribers, along with distribution projects in Nizwa, Bahla, Adam, Izki and Samail.

Ongoing works include the RO 32.5 million Al Hamra water network project, now 91 percent complete; the RO 24.6 million Manah project, recently completed; and the RO 35.7 million Izki network, currently 19 percent complete. Projects are also under way in the Samail Industrial Area (RO 12.2 million, 65 percent complete), Samail–Izki (RO 31.2 million, due Q4 2027), and the Bahla–Ibri water supply system (RO 26.2 million, over 65 percent complete), which will connect more than 35 villages and is scheduled for completion in Q3 2026.

Future plans include designing new water networks in Nizwa, Bahla and Adam, linking transmission lines between Al Dakhiliyah, Al Sharqiyah and Al Dhahirah for emergency supply resilience, upgrading wastewater treatment plants in several wilayats, and establishing a new 1,000-cubic-metre-per-day plant in Adam. Projects are also under way to transport recycled water between Nizwa and Manah (RO 9.27 million) and to develop sewage and recycled water networks in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, both targeted for completion in the third quarter of 2026. Nama Water said its annual local value-added investments in the governorate exceeded RO 10.3 million this year.

Meanwhile, Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Shuaili, Director General of Communication and Marketing, said electricity subscriber accounts in Al Dakhiliyah surpassed 160,000 by the end of last September, with residential tariffs accounting for about 72 percent. In 2025, the company rolled out several digital transformation initiatives, including automated payment services, an electronic transaction-tracking system, upgrades to the Namaa Services mobile app, and automation of disconnection and reconnection processes. The “Sahalat” campaign was also launched, offering flexible payment solutions such as Thabit, Sabiq and Yusr.

He added that energy exported from rooftop solar systems between January and August 2025 exceeded RO 146,500, with more than 8.7 million kilowatt-hours generated across 724 accounts, underscoring the growing role of renewable energy in Oman’s power mix.