Work on the project is scheduled to start in the first half of next year and conclude in the last quarter of 2020.
November 1, 2018
Bahrain’s plan to use submarine power cables to connect Hawar Islands to mainland Bahrain will be launched to tenders in November.
The 25-km power cable will run from Al Bar, the southernmost tip on the island of Bahrain, to north-western Hawar. The goal is to see Hawar get a permanent electricity grid rather than depend on temporary power generators.
Per an on-line posting by Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, a Bahraini deputy prime minister who heads the Ministerial Committee for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Work, the project is scheduled to start in the first half of next year and be completed in the last quarter of 2020. The Electricity and Water Authority has submitted a proposal about the route for the cable.