Sohar Aluminium supports Oman National Power Grid

　　True to its mutual cooperation with the government sector Sohar Aluminium’s Power Plant entered into a 2010-2012 agreement with the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) to assist with the increasing demand during peak summer months and enable both parties to transfer power between each other’s Systems

　　With the Oman National Power Grid summer demand increasing above the installed Grid generating capacity until new capacity is added to the System in 2012, Sohar Aluminium agreed to assist the Grid by exporting power during the high demand summer months and importing power during the low demand winter months to balance the export.

　　Support from Sohar Aluminium during May to July 2010 was limited to 138,239 Megawatt Hours as the Grid demand reduced substantially following Typhoon Phet. However, during 2011 the total power exported to the Grid for the peak months of May to August was 457,602 Megawatt Hours.

　　During this period SA’s Power Plant which has a capacity of 1,000 Megawatt Hours, was regularly operated at 950 Megawatt Hours with 640 Megawatt Hours utilised to support the Smelter Operations and over 300 Megawatt Hours exported to the National Grid which peaked at 3,991 Megawatt Hours.