Innovation Park Muscat is getting a district cooling plant: Oman’s Higher Education Ministry signed an agreement with central cooling solutions company Tabreed Oman — a subsidiary of UAE’s National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed) — to establish a district cooling plant in Innovation Park Muscat (IPM), Times of Oman reports. The financial details of the plant and a timeline for construction have not been disclosed.

What we know: The central cooling plant will span 1.5k square meters and will have a capacity of 10k ton refrigeration tons (RT). The facility will serve the heating and cooling needs of pre-existing buildings and further developments in IPM, the news outlet notes. Spanning 540k square meters, IPM is a research and development center that aims to accelerate the growth of Omani-based renewables, food, biotech, and oil recovery firms.

Tabreed has been expanding its MENA operations: The company increased its totalconnection capacity to over 1.2 mn RT last year by adding some 34k RT of new connections in the UAE, some 19k RT in Oman, and 500 RT in Bahrain throughout the year. The company also announced a partnership with Egypt’s Gascool and real estate investment firm Marakez in February to provide district cooling services to the D5M mall in Cairo’s New Katameya. Earlier in September, Tabreed signed a long-term BOO agreement with Egyptians for Healthcare Services Company for a district cooling plant that will serve Cairo’s healthcare city project CapitalMed.

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