Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has invited consultants to submit proposals for providing technical and economic advisory services on a feasibility study for the sultanate’s first planned waste-to-energy project.

Under the contract, consultants will provide technical and economic advisory services for the waste-to-energy feasibility study, and if the feasibility study is successful, the consultants will provide advisory services for the competitive tendering of the project. The deadline for submitting proposals is 22 February.

The project is part of Oman’s efforts to diversify its fuel supply for power generation as it seeks to meet the growing demand for power generation.

MEED reported in December that Oman had started the procurement process for the sultanate’s first large-scale solar project. OPWP issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a photovoltaic (PV) solar independent power project (IPP) in Ibri, which is about 300 kilometres inland from Muscat. The proposed plant with have a power generation capacity of 500 MW.

The closing date for submitting prequalification documents for the main developer contract is the 22 February 2018.

MEED reported in early November that OPWP had appointed Germany’s Fichtner and the UK’s DLA Piper as the technical and legal advisers for the scheme. In October, MEED reported that OPWP had appointed US/India’s Synergy Consulting as financial adviser for the solar project.

The proposed IPP will be the second utility-scale renewables project planned in Oman, with the UAE’s Masdar announcing in 2014 it was planning to develop a 50MW wind farm in the southern part of the sultanate in partnership with the local Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco).

Due to a number of delays in the design and procurement phase, the developer is currently evaluating EPC proposals. Following the delays, the project is now also due to be operational in 2020.