"This visit comes under the Sultanate of Oman approach to obtain environment friendly technologies that help conserve energy as it’s growing rapidly among all sectors," said H. E. Abdulla bin Abbas bin Ahmed, Head of Muscat Municipality. "District cooling, which offers 40% energy savings over conventional cooling methods, is therefore the ideal solution for our needs." The delegation toured the Bainounah plant in Abu Dhabi followed by a short visit to the Energy Transfer Station (ETS), where they were briefed on the technical operations of district cooling plants. Subsequently, they were taken through the processes of the construction of cooling plants.
  
"Tabreed pioneered the use of district cooling in the Middle East in 1998 and since then we have undertaken projects in various other countries in the Middle East including all GCC nations as well as Jordan in the Levant,” said Karl Marietta, Deputy CEO of the company. "We want to share the rich expertise we have gained through supplying cooling to projects in diverse sectors including retail, hospitality, healthcare as well as commercial and residential development,” he added.