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Publish Date : 16-Sep-2014

Japan’s Fuji Electric has won a supply and installation contract for the primary substation serving the Dilmunia project in Bahrain. The 66kV substation will supply electricity to nearly 40% of the ambitious 125-hectare, $1.6bn man-made island. Cebarco a contractor based in Bahrain has secured the civil works contract and has already commenced work on the site that will accommodate the substation. Fuji Electric will be constructing the facility abroad and deliver it to Bahrain in stages. During the first quarter of 2015, the primary substation is set to begin, just in time for the completion of the Seavilla development, with Dilmunia’s first residents scheduled to move in the third quarter.

Bahrain-based Ansari Engineering Services will take up the design works on the substation civil structure, while Montreal-based engineering and construction group SNC Lavalin offered electro-mechanical consultancy services and associated works. Related to the primary substation, the total value of contracts is nearly $12.6mn. Dilmunia is a project of master developer Ithmaar Development Company (IDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank, an Islamic retail bank traded on the Bahrain Bourse and also on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.

According to IDC chief executive Mohammed Khalil Alsayed, the project is progressing more swiftly than expected. He said, “We are pleased to have Fuji Electric with us on this important step towards the completion of this landmark, first-of-its-kind project.” “Fuji Electric is known for innovating energy technology and making broad contributions worldwide to the fields of industrial and social infrastructure, and we are happy to have them onboard working with us.”

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