HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), received a high-level delegation from German company Siemens, as part of efforts to strengthen cooperation with strategic partners. The delegation included Ralf Christian, CEO of Siemens AV Energy Management Division, and Wolfgang Braun, Senior Executive Vice President of Energy Management at Siemens Middle East. Al Tayer welcomed the delegation noting the importance of strengthening relations between Siemens and DEWA, in light of a long history of successful partnerships from both sides.
Al Tayer highlighted DEWA’s major projects, initiatives, and investment opportunities launched to support the vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to achieve the happiness and well-being of citizens, residents, and visitors, and transform the Emirate into an ideal environment to live, work and visit. Al Tayer also discussed DEWA’s strategic projects in the field of clean and renewable energy, launched to support the UAE Vision 2021, which aims to make the UAE one of the best and most sustainable cities by 2021. DEWA’s projects aim to achieve the objectives set by the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, to transform Dubai into an international hub for clean energy and green economy, and the city with the lowest carbon footprint in the world.
DEWA launches ambitious projects in clean and renewable energy, and desalination, in adherence with its vision to become a sustainable innovative world-class utility. DEWA promotes Research and Development (R&D) of sustainability and renewable energy such as solar power, to support the Dubai Innovation Strategy to transform Dubai into a smart, innovative, integrated, and connected sustainable city.
The visiting delegation highlighted the latest technologies developed by Siemens in the field of energy production, to keep pace with rapid changes, and to meet growing demands for energy reliability and efficiency. This technology will support the expansion of the M-Station, for energy production and desalinating water.
The M-Station is the latest and largest power production and desalination plant in the UAE, with current production capacity of 2,060 megawatts (MW) of electricity, and 140 million imperial gallons of water a day (MIGD), with a total investment exceeding AED 10 billion. The M-Station adheres to the highest standards of availability, reliability, and efficiency, while adopting the latest and most advanced international technologies. The expansion project includes establishing new 700MW power generation units, which will add to the stations current production capacity. The M-Station will be capable of producing 2,760MW by 2018.
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