{"version":"1","article":{"id":"uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","slug":"uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=en","title":"Sharjah completes two electricity transmission projects","summary":"SEWA says two projects are complete, including 71.7 km of 132 kV underground cable linking seven main substations; 13 more projects remain underway.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":[],"published_at":"2026-10-08T20:57:50+03:00","modified_at":"2026-10-08T20:57:50+03:00","publication_basis":"publication-record","event_period":"2026-09-24","event_period_basis":"event-or-reference-period","sources":[{"name":"Emirates News Agency (WAM)","url":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2epfgc-sewa-announces-completion-220132-electricity","publishedAt":"2026-09-24","checkedAt":"2026-10-08"}],"translations":[{"language":"tr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/tr/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=tr"},{"language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=en"},{"language":"ar","url":"https://haberpaper.com/ar/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=ar"},{"language":"fr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/fr/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=fr"},{"language":"es","url":"https://haberpaper.com/es/news/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026?lang=es"}],"data_types":["table"],"data":{"version":1,"blocks":[{"id":"sharjah-transmission-projects","type":"table","title":{"tr":"Sharjah iletim projeleri","en":"Sharjah transmission projects","ar":"مشاريع نقل الكهرباء في الشارقة","fr":"Projets de transport à Charjah","es":"Proyectos de transmisión de Sharjah"},"description":{"tr":"SEWA’nın tamamlandığını bildirdiği iki çalışmanın açıklanan kapsam ve maliyetleri.","en":"Reported scope and costs for two works SEWA says are complete.","ar":"النطاق والتكاليف المعلنة لمشروعين قالت سيوا إنهما اكتملتا.","fr":"Portée et coûts annoncés de deux travaux achevés selon SEWA.","es":"Alcance y costes comunicados de dos obras que SEWA declara terminadas."},"methodology":{"tr":"Maliyetler nominal AED’dir. Kablo ve trafo merkezi sayısı Havalimanı Projesi’ne aittir. İki projenin maliyetleri toplamı hesaplandığında 341,493 milyon AED’dir; kaynak genel toplamı ‘341,493 milyon AED’den fazla’ olarak aktarır.","en":"Costs are nominal AED. Cable length and substation count refer to the Airport Project. The sum of the two costs is the lower bound implied by the source’s ‘more than AED341.493m’ statement, not an exact reported total.","ar":"التكاليف اسمية بالدرهم. ويخص طول الكابل وعدد المحطات مشروع المطار. ومجموع التكلفتين حد أدنى مستنتج من بيان «أكثر من 341.493 مليون درهم»، وليس إجمالياً دقيقاً أوردته الهيئة.","fr":"Les coûts sont nominaux en AED. La longueur et le nombre de postes concernent le projet de l’aéroport. Leur somme constitue une borne inférieure déduite du seuil « plus de 341,493 millions », pas un total exact publié.","es":"Los costes son nominales en AED. La longitud y las subestaciones corresponden al Proyecto del Aeropuerto. La suma es el límite inferior implícito en ‘más de 341,493 millones’, no un total exacto publicado."},"sourceUrls":["https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2epfgc-sewa-announces-completion-220132-electricity"],"updatedAt":"2026-10-08T17:03:53+00:00","columns":[{"key":"project","label":{"tr":"Proje","en":"Project","ar":"المشروع","fr":"Projet","es":"Proyecto"},"type":"text","language":"en"},{"key":"voltage","label":{"tr":"Gerilim","en":"Voltage","ar":"الجهد","fr":"Tension","es":"Tensión"},"type":"text"},{"key":"cost","label":{"tr":"Açıklanan maliyet","en":"Reported cost","ar":"التكلفة المعلنة","fr":"Coût annoncé","es":"Coste comunicado"},"type":"number","unit":"million AED"},{"key":"scope","label":{"tr":"Fiziksel kapsam","en":"Physical scope","ar":"النطاق المادي","fr":"Portée physique","es":"Alcance físico"},"type":"text","language":"en"}],"rows":[{"project":"Airport Project","voltage":"132 kV","cost":235,"scope":"71.7 km underground cable; seven main substations connected"},{"project":"Overhead line upgrade","voltage":"220 kV","cost":106.493,"scope":"Upgrade of overhead transmission lines"}]}]},"data_compilations":[{"id":"sharjah-transmission-projects","creator":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://haberpaper.com/#organization","name":"Haber Paper","url":"https://haberpaper.com/"},"license":{"@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://haberpaper.com/en/data-terms/v1#license","name":"Haber Paper Original Data Compilation License 1.0","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/data-terms/v1"},"rights_scope":"Haber Paper original data arrangement, labels and methodology notes only; underlying source rights and permissions remain separate.","source_license_url":null}],"data_downloads":[{"id":"sharjah-transmission-projects","formats":{"json":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026/data/sharjah-transmission-projects?lang=en&format=json","csv":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/uae-sewa-transmission-projects-sharjah-2026/data/sharjah-transmission-projects?lang=en&format=csv"}}],"content":{"paragraphs":["Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (SEWA) announced on 24 September that it had completed two electricity transmission projects. Its Airport Project connected seven main substations with 71.7 kilometres of underground 132 kV cable. SEWA reported a cost of AED235 million for that work. The second project upgraded 220 kV overhead transmission lines at a reported cost of AED106.493 million. These are the individually reported costs; SEWA described the combined cost of the two completed projects as exceeding AED341.493 million.","The authority also said work continues on 13 major projects, for which the stated total cost exceeds AED725.292 million. These projects are at different stages, including design and construction, so they are not completed assets. SEWA identified the 220 kV Al Shanouf substation at AED218.143 million, the 132 kV Al Ghubaiba substation at AED230.840 million, and the 132 kV Al Nahda substation at AED203.698 million among the major works underway. A separate Al Shanouf project is rerouting 13.4 kilometres of overhead line. These are announced project values and plans, not commissioned capacity.","Transmission lines and substations move electricity between generation sources and users in homes, businesses and industry. Underground cables can offer a different routing and land-use option in built-up or transport corridors, but the choice alone does not establish lower cost or higher efficiency. The network effect depends on connection capacity, demand patterns, maintenance and coordination with the existing system. SEWA says the works are intended to serve new residential, investment and industrial areas and ease pressure on existing substations.","Adding the two individually stated completed-project costs gives AED341.493 million. Because SEWA describes the total as exceeding that amount, this calculated subtotal should not be presented as the exact overall expenditure. For the 13 ongoing projects, the agency likewise reports a threshold above AED725.292 million, not a precise contract total. The announcement provides no completed transmission capacity, peak-demand change, technical-loss rate or change in customer outage duration. Without those measures, the quantitative service effect cannot yet be derived from this release.","Growth in Sharjah’s residential and industrial areas requires investment in both local distribution and higher-voltage transmission. The announcement does not describe the entire network plan or the emirate’s electricity supply-demand balance. Project costs are not operating outcomes: assessing performance later will require commissioning dates, completed deliveries, connection capacity and published reliability indicators. This report therefore separates the two works SEWA says are complete from projects that remain under implementation.","The accompanying table records the nominal AED values reported by WAM and makes no inflation or exchange-rate adjustment. Cable length and the number of connected substations refer only to the Airport Project. SEWA’s general description of using modern technologies is not a technical comparison or a measured performance result, so it should not be read as independent evidence of efficiency gains."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"SEWA says two projects are complete, including 71.7 km of 132 kV underground cable linking seven main substations; 13 more projects remain underway.\n\nSharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (SEWA) announced on 24 September that it had completed two electricity transmission projects. Its Airport Project connected seven main substations with 71.7 kilometres of underground 132 kV cable. SEWA reported a cost of AED235 million for that work. The second project upgraded 220 kV overhead transmission lines at a reported cost of AED106.493 million. These are the individually reported costs; SEWA described the combined cost of the two completed projects as exceeding AED341.493 million.\n\nThe authority also said work continues on 13 major projects, for which the stated total cost exceeds AED725.292 million. These projects are at different stages, including design and construction, so they are not completed assets. SEWA identified the 220 kV Al Shanouf substation at AED218.143 million, the 132 kV Al Ghubaiba substation at AED230.840 million, and the 132 kV Al Nahda substation at AED203.698 million among the major works underway. A separate Al Shanouf project is rerouting 13.4 kilometres of overhead line. These are announced project values and plans, not commissioned capacity.\n\nTransmission lines and substations move electricity between generation sources and users in homes, businesses and industry. Underground cables can offer a different routing and land-use option in built-up or transport corridors, but the choice alone does not establish lower cost or higher efficiency. The network effect depends on connection capacity, demand patterns, maintenance and coordination with the existing system. SEWA says the works are intended to serve new residential, investment and industrial areas and ease pressure on existing substations.\n\nAdding the two individually stated completed-project costs gives AED341.493 million. Because SEWA describes the total as exceeding that amount, this calculated subtotal should not be presented as the exact overall expenditure. For the 13 ongoing projects, the agency likewise reports a threshold above AED725.292 million, not a precise contract total. The announcement provides no completed transmission capacity, peak-demand change, technical-loss rate or change in customer outage duration. Without those measures, the quantitative service effect cannot yet be derived from this release.\n\nGrowth in Sharjah’s residential and industrial areas requires investment in both local distribution and higher-voltage transmission. The announcement does not describe the entire network plan or the emirate’s electricity supply-demand balance. Project costs are not operating outcomes: assessing performance later will require commissioning dates, completed deliveries, connection capacity and published reliability indicators. This report therefore separates the two works SEWA says are complete from projects that remain under implementation.\n\nThe accompanying table records the nominal AED values reported by WAM and makes no inflation or exchange-rate adjustment. Cable length and the number of connected substations refer only to the Airport Project. SEWA’s general description of using modern technologies is not a technical comparison or a measured performance result, so it should not be read as independent evidence of efficiency gains.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"energy","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/energy-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic energy landscape with solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"energy","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/energy-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic energy landscape with solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines.","language":"en"}}}