In keeping pace with growing power demand in Oman, the Rural Areas Electricity Company will invest an estimated OMR126 million to improve power generation capacity in rural areas in 2016, according to Engineer Hamad bin Salim Al Maghderi, chief executive officer of the Rural Areas Electricity Company. Engineer Al Maghderi also said that four new power plants in the Sultanate — Masirah, Thurmait, Khasab and Mazuna — which are due for completion in 2016, will generate a total of 200MW of power. He pointed out that the electricity sector in the country continued to record growth in 2015 and managed to reach new geographical areas as a result of population growth and the increased industrial and commercial projects in the Sultanate. (Times of Oman)