Abu Dhabi, UAE, 19 January, 2017: HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) offered a keynote speech in a session entitled 'Meeting the UAE's Renewable resource Targets' at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) throughout Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2017. HE Suhail Al Mazrouei, UAE Minister of Power, was present.

Al Tayrer highlighted DEWA's methods and tasks to accomplish Dubai's and the UAE's renewable energy objectives, decrease dependence on nonrenewable fuel sources, and reduce exhausts. " I pleased in to be right here today to assess the progress of our appealing efforts and jobs in tidy and renewable resource, which are increasing the energy field to make the UAE the most sustainable nation on the planet. These accomplishments support the regulations of our sensible leadership, represented by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to shape the future and achieve the UAE Vision 2021 to earn the UAE one of the best nations on the planet by 2021. The energy industry is a major component of our financial, environmental, and social advancement. The most significant obstacle that governments will face in the future is meeting their growing energy requirements, boost power security and sustainability and reducing their environmental results," said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electrical power and Water Authority.

" In Dubai, we are diversifying out to raise the share of tidy power in our power mix. In November 2015, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum revealed the Dubai Clean Power Technique 2050 to offer 7% of Dubai's complete power output from tidy energy by 2020, 25% by 2030 and 75% by 2050. Dubai is the only city in the center East and North Africa to release such an approach, with details targets and target dates that outline the future of energy in Dubai until 2050. Recently, the tidy and renewable energy field has actually established substantially, so we are preparing to bid goodbye to the last decline of oil. We are making major technological advances in energy and taking advantage of solar energy. We are also committed to the global setting by minimizing our carbon impact. This pledge is mentioned in the Dubai Carbon Reduction Strategy with a target to reduce carbon discharges by 16% by 2021, and we are motivating R & d (R&D) in solar energy, as the UAE in purposefully located within the Sunbelt. One of the significant solar energy projects in Dubai is the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which is the biggest single-site solar park worldwide, with a planned capacity of 5,000 megawatts (MW) by 2030. It will certainly help reduce 6.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year," included Al Tayer.

" We have made considerable achievements in our plans with the Solar Park's ongoing tasks. The 13MW first stage of the solar park ended up being functional in October 2013. On 28 November 2015, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated the 200MW 2nd phase of the solar park. By mid-December 2016, we had actually finished 80% of this phase. It is the biggest and largest project of its kind to be created based upon the Independent Power Producer (IPP) version, and will be operational by April 2017. DEWA has actually set a world document by acquiring the most affordable cost globally for the 2nd stage, at USD 5.6 cents per kilowatt hour (kW/h). DEWA set another world record with the lowest taped proposal being USD 2.99 cents per kW/h for the 800MW 3rd phase of the park, which will be operational by 2020, based upon the IPP version. DEWA intends to build the biggest Concentrated Solar energy (CSP) project in the world, based upon the IPP design. DEWA has actually launched a tender for leading international CSP experts to send their propositions for advisory solutions for the 200MW initially project of the CSP plant. It will be functional by April 2021, and DEWA will produce 1,000 MW using this modern technology by 2030," stated Al Tayer.

" DEWA is also developing an interactive innovation centre at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. It will certainly be geared up with the current technologies in clean and renewable resource, to improve nationwide skills in the power market, business competition, and culture understanding about eco-friendly and lasting power. The project will be completed this year," continued Al Tayer.

" The R&D centre was launched in 2014. It is presently under construction and will be completed by 2020. The centre will conduct researches for commercial and social demands. It will certainly enable scientific study by linking scientists, academics and developers, and developing strategies for innovative and effective suggestions. It has two testing facilities, one for photovoltaic solar testing and the other for CSP. The centre is currently checking 30 solar panels from global professional suppliers to check the properties, analyse the results, and use them in r & d. It collaborates with international organisations on soiling and dirt reduction on photovoltaic tools. The tests are presently being done to establish a baseline for the growth of specs, examinations and criteria for photovoltaic or pv devices. The R&D centre will focus on 4 key procedures. These consist of producing electrical power making use of solar energy, combination of smart grids, creating lasting solutions to produce water using solar energy, and boost power effectiveness. We take into consideration demand side administration a key factor in boosting energy performance and ensuring its environmental and financial sustainability in terms of financial savings, improving procedures, and improving the performance of solar power. DEWA accepts partners and educational institutions all over the world, to buy innovation and creativity, and works to create the next generation's access to solar energy with initiatives such as the Solar Decathlon Middle East. This competitors will encourage university teams to provide their latest innovations to establish the solar homes of the future. Dubai will certainly organize two rounds of the Solar Decathlon, which will be held for the very first time in the center East and North Africa, in 2018 and once more in 2020 to coincide with World Expo 2020 in Dubai. Competition prizes will make an overall of AED 10 million," stated Al Tayer.

" DEWA has actually authorized a number of MoUs with global organisations to train DEWA staff members in Europe, and the UNITED STATE, to trade experience and discover the most up to date international growths in energy, water, and atmosphere, and enhance knowledge exchange with worldwide organisations. DEWA sent several its designers to international establishments to study renewable resource. DEWA cooperates with the International Renewable Energy Agency, and the United Nations to research sustainable and different power, to decrease the carbon impact and limit greenhouse gas emissions."

"As part of our initiatives to expand the energy mix and depend upon tidy and renewable resource sources, we announced a major project to develop a hydroelectric power station that will certainly take advantage of the water kept in the hills beside the Hatta dam and various other advancement jobs that will certainly be finished in 5 years. The hydroelectric power plant is the initial of its kind in the GCC. It will generate 250MW with a life expectancy of 60-80 years. The project will certainly offer at the very least 2,000 works during the implementation and after conclusion. To sustain the Smart Dubai effort to earn Dubai the smartest and happiest city on the planet, we launched three smart campaigns. The initial effort is Shams Dubai to encourage building proprietors to mount photovoltaic panels to create electrical power. The 2nd is the Smart Applications and Meters initiative to speed up links, respond much faster, and save power. The Green Charger campaign develops the facilities for electrical vehicle charging stations to encourage making use of electric automobiles in Dubai. 100 Green Chargers have been mounted in various components of Dubai so far. We have actually achieved significant development with the Shams Dubai initiative. By December 2016, DEWA linked 296 roof planetary systems. These consist of residential and business buildings in Dubai with an ability of over 7.3 MW. The smart grid campaign is a key element in our strategy to create a sophisticated facilities to sustain Dubai to come to be the most intelligent city on the planet and lower energy usage by 30% by 2030," included Al Tayer.

"His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved the Dubai Future Schedule, and introduced the Dubai Future Foundation to manage its execution to shape the future in tactical fields. DEWA is contributing to establishing the biggest Federal government Accelerators on the planet. We have a clear integrated strategy that is based upon innovation and expecting the future that continuously sustains Research and Development (R&D) via incubators that innovate technical designs and solutions, establish renewable resource innovations, and continually examine the very best experiences and the most up to date international techniques. We are functioning to keep the pace of the Fourth Industrial Change. We execute turbulent innovations in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity and water to give world-class solutions, with a focus on quality of life for citizens and residents and the sustainability of our sources. DEWA also considers it a concern to establish reliable collaborations between the public and private sectors for their key duty in the success of the Future Accelerators, by opening up brand-new perspectives to benefit from identified and innovative experiences," continued Al Tayer.

"These will certainly help to establish the very best services and applications and take them to the highest possible international requirements, to help Dubai become the happiest city in the world. To sustain this ambitious National programme, we authorized three MoUs for speculative jobs with 3 start-up business. These are Ecoisme, Mistbox, and Sure Cool. They make use of sophisticated modern technologies that rely on expert system, solar energy and various other technologies to perform study and experiments. This is done with technological incubators in energy conserving, cooling, power storage, providing real-time info for customers on power use of devices and invoicing. This will assist homeowners to increase power effectiveness, along with our locations of procedures. We constantly examine the very best international methods and the most up to date growths in operating systems, mobile computing and cloud computing, virtualisation, circulation systems, software engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), robot innovations, and Big and Open Data, and studying consumer behaviour. DEWA likewise takes advantage of Unmanned Aerial Cars (UAVs) to aid in its energy and water solutions. DEWA performs research to develop versions, and smart grid technologies and systems, and monitor energy intake patterns. It investigates the impact that new technologies have on the grids, from renewable resource, to storage space innovations and electrical vehicle facilities, and research study 3D printing," stated Al Tayer.

"Last year witnessed the launch of global campaigns and approaches. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the Dubai-based World Green Economic situation Organisation (WGEO) in partnership with the UNDP. His Highness likewise released the AED 100 billion Dubai Green Fund to provide monetary devices for clean energy financiers. We will certainly remain to build more eco-friendly and tidy power projects, to achieve this vision and boost sustainability and make the UAE a global platform for innovation to profit the UAE's residents and residents from all over the world to contribute to a brighter and more sustainable future for all," wrapped up Al Tayer.