Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer

Dubai intends to create 25% of its power from renewable sources by 2030 as well as take it to 100% by 2050. The city included 700 MW of renewable energy just recently, taking its total RE capacity to 1.62 GW.

Dubai Electricity and also Water Authority (DEWA) has actually inaugurated a pilot project for energy storage at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park making use of Tesla's lithium-ion battery remedy. The project has a power ability of 1.21 MW and also an energy capability of 8.61 MWh with a life span of approximately one decade.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Siemens Energy have actually ushered in the Middle East's very first industrial-scale, solar-powered environment-friendly hydrogen project.

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has confirmed that it fielded a tariff of US$1.6953 cents per kWh in a recent tender for a 900MW plot of its 5GW Mohammed bin Rashid (MbR) solar parks – a bid it claims sets a world record for the indepedent power producer (IPP) model.

The latest 7 MW of net metered solar capacity in Dubai indicates 11 MW were added across ten new arrays in just nine days as the Shams initiative continues to work up a head of steam.

The Emirati utility and the Chinese communications giant and inverter maker have discussed how they can work together to roll out solar and storage in Dubai as well as collaborating on cyber security and the use of AI to analyze cyber threats.

The Dubai Water and Electricity Authority will use energy from the gigawatt-scale Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park to provide a new hydropower plant with pumped storage capacity. The state-owned utility has announced a number of innovations for the project in recent months, including plans for hydrogen and large-scale storage capacity.