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HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has actually met with Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, at the World Government Summit, where DEWA is its Sustainable Energy Partner. The conference was likewise gone to by Nasser Lootah, Executive Vice President of Generation, Waleed Salman, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Dr. Yousef Ibrahim Al Akraf, Executive Vice President of Business Support and Human Resources, Khawla Al Mehairi, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications at DEWA.

Al Tayer welcomed the Siemens delegation and commended existing cooperation between DEWA and Siemens. He noted that Siemens is a long term strategic partner for over 30 years, especially in energy projects and solutions.

Kaeser noted that Siemens and DEWA have actually been carefully working together to improve the lifestyle through development for many years to create a sustainable energy environment to drive innovation in line with Dubai's vision.

"DEWA is dedicated to building strategic relationships with regional, local, and international organisations to offer an outstanding energy facilities to satisfy the enhancing energy demands of the Emirate. It also supports DEWA's vision to become a sustainable innovative world-class utility.

"We embrace a holistic technique based on the latest international technologies. We collaborate with our strategic partners in research and development, constructing capabilities, the current solar technologies, energy storage, CO2 catching, enhancing efficiency in the production, transmission, and distribution of electrical power and water, security of energy materials, and producing energy using clean coal using the Ultra-supercritical (USC) technologyy," added Al Tayer.

"Dubai has a clean-cut sustainability method, guaranteeing its civil development, while protecting natural resources. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, released the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 to provide 75 % of Dubai's energy from clean sources. The Park is the largest single-site solar energy task in the world, based on the IPP design.

"The Smart Applications through Smart Grids and Metres effort will make it possible for DEWA to develop an integrated wise grid covering generation, transmission and distribution systems. The AED 7 billion smart grid will include demand side management, possession management, automation, transfer stations, automation of distribution networks and the combination of systems and smart meters," kept in mind Al Tayer.

The Dubai Integrated Energy Strategy 2030 focuses on energy security by diversifying the energy mix, and minimizing energy and water use by 30 % by 2030. DEWA invests in 9 programs as part of the demand-side management method. These include green structure regulations, retrofitting existing buildings, district cooling, wastewater reuse, laws and standards to raise performance, energy-efficient street-lighting, and Shams Dubai initiative, which motivates building owners to install photovoltaic panels to create electrical energy. This strategy encourages energy service business in the market and to ensure energy effectiveness business.

DEWA contributes over 50 % of this target. DEWA developed the Etihad Energy Service Company (Super Esco) to motivate energy service companies in the market and to ensure energy efficiency company.

DEWA's efforts in energy efficiency have contributed to achieving numerous milestones internationally, going beyond significant European and American companies in different areas. Losses in power transmission and distribution networks reached 3.26 %, as compared to 6-7 % in Europe and the USA. Water network losses reached 8.26 %, compared with 15 % in North America. Customer minutes lost each year reached 3.87 minutes, compared with 15 minutes taped by leading utilities in the European Union.

57 % of DEWA's gas turbine fleet are Siemens gas turbines. DEWA worked with Siemens to establish and carry out the Wet Compression job at just 30 % of market price. DEWA has become a standard for finest practices all over the world in commercially carrying out Wet Compression project for the very first time.

DEWA is presently working with Siemens on the Jebel Ali M-Station expansion. The project, worth AED1.47 billion, will be completed by the end of April 2018. The expansion project includes adding two gas turbine generators, two heat recovery steam turbine generators, and one back pressure steam turbine. This will enhance the plant's thermal performance from 82.4 % to 85.8 %, which is considered to be one of the greatest thermal-efficiency rates in the world. M-Station, built at a cost of AED10 billion, is the newest and largest power production and desalination plant in the UAE, with a total capacity of 2,060MW of electricity and 140 million imperial gallons of water per day.The station adopts the greatest levels of accessibility, reliability, and performance, using the most innovative technologies in the world.

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