Hyundai E&C secures solar transmission project in Madinah + Jeddah: South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering& Construction (Hyundai E&C) landed two contracts — worth a combined USD 389 mn — from the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) for the installation of 380 kV transmission lines delivering power from solar plants to substations in the Madinah and Jeddah, spanning a combined 491 km, according to a company press release Korean media outlets say they have seen (here and here).

More on the projects: The Madinah network will span 311 km, connecting a planned solar power plant in western Saudi Arabia to a substation near Madinah. Meanwhile, the Qurayyat network in Jeddah will extend 180 km, linking another planned solar plant in Qurayyat to an existing power grid near Makkah. The turnkey contracts will see Hyundai E&C overseeing all stages from design and procurement to construction, with completion penciled in for November 2027.

REMEMBER- Hyundai E&C is on a Saudi spree: Hyundai E&C secured a USD 713.9 mn contract from SEC in November to build a 369-km section of the 500-kV, 1.1k-km high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line connecting Riyadh with Kudmi in southwestern Saudi Arabia, with the project slated for completion in January 2027. Later that same month, the South Korean infrastructure giant inked a SAR 777.2 mn two-year contract to procure 500 kV HVDC overhead transmission lines from Al Babtain Power and Telecom, with the agreement set to come into effect in 3Q 2025.

That’s not all: A Hyundai E&C-led consortium will reportedly be working on the second phase of Aramco’s Jafurah Gas Field. The outfit had secured a contract in 2023 to build an HVDC transmission line linking Neom with the southwestern port city of Yanbu.

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