According to Amac News: Based on DEWA's announcement, the installation of generators in this power plant is underway to prepare for testing in the first quarter of 2025.
This hydropower plant is designed as an energy storage facility and has a reversible efficiency of 78.9%.
This power plant uses the potential energy of the water stored in the upper dam and by converting it into kinetic energy, the water flows through a 1.2 km underground tunnel.
This kinetic energy turns turbines and converts mechanical energy into electrical energy that can be transmitted to the DEWA grid within 90 seconds.
For energy storage, clean electricity generated at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is used to pump water to the upper dam, converting electricity into kinetic energy in the process.
This power plant has a production capacity of 250 megawatts (MW), a storage capacity of 1,500 megawatt hours, and a useful life of up to 80 years. This project is the first project of its kind in the Persian Gulf region with an investment of 1.421 billion dirhams.
It is expected that this project will be fully completed by the end of the second quarter of 2025.