DEWA to supply aluminium manufacturer with Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum solar park
- UAE energy Dubai Electricity as well as Water Authority (DEWA) has actually partnered with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the globe's largest distributors of aluminium, to offer the metal producer with solar energy from the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
DEWA claims the offer makes the UAE the initial nation to start creating aluminium with solar energy. EGA's smelter will certainly be supplied with 56,000 GWh of solar yearly, which the firm claims will certainly suffice to generate 40,000 tonnes of aluminium in its very first year. Steel generated with the partnership will certainly be sold under the new name CelestiAL.
The Dubai solar park has actually a set up PV ability of just over 1GW, however DEWA wishes to raise this capability fivefold over the next decade with financial investments amounting to US$ 13.6 billion. The utility fielded a toll of US$ 1.6953 cents per kWh in a tender for a 900MW plot of its Mohammed container Rashid solar parks in 2019, which it hoped would certainly increase its manufacturing capacity to 2,863 MW.
The offer was signed from another location by DEWA president and EGA vice chairman Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer and also Abdul Nasser, the CEO of EGA. Al Tayer stated the contract brings Dubai closer to reaching targets laid out in its Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which includes powering the city through a 75% mix of tidy power resources.
" To attain these objectives," Al Tayer stated, "we have actually launched numerous efforts and projects, most significantly the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which is the largest single-site solar power project on the planet with a capacity of 5,000 megawatts by 2030."