Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Al Batinah Power Company SAOG (the “Company”) considers corporate citizenship as a key element of the business success. Guided by its CSR policy and focusing on education, sports, health, safety and environment as key engagements areas, the Company has spent 25,000 OMR in three projects in 2019 as summarized in the table below:

With the aim to achieve below main objectives:

1. Providing green, renewable and free of charge electricity to the school
2. Enhancing the awareness of the clean and renewable energy amongst the students and society
3. Promoting in country value and supporting Omani SME in the field of the renewable energy 

The Company has entered into sponsorship agreement with three other power companies to install a 48 KWp solar PV system in Hafidh bin Saif School in Liwa. The project has been completed and it has a capacity of 48 KWp and expected to produce around 77 MWh/year. The total project cost is around 60,000 OMR which is sponsored by four power companies.

The Company with another sector company sponsored an aerospace ship shaped cinema of 12,500 OMR (6,250 OMR each), which plays scientific movies using the virtual reality technology. Targeted about 200,000 visitors the cinema offered its services in the Oman Scientific exhibition which was held in the period between 4^th and 8^th November 2019. The cinema then transferred to the General Directorate of Education for North Al Batinah Governorate where it serves the local community schools and colleagues for a period of 10 years.

Finally, enhancing students’ engagements and interactions with scientific subjects, the company denoted the supply of interactive displays & interactive white boards to Abu Al Mundhir Al Ruhaili School in Sohar with a cost of 3,750 OMR.