Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced that the pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant it is developing in Hatta will export clean energy to Dubai for the first time from April 2025.
Publish dateSunday 23 February 2025 - 18:43
According to Amac News, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, CEO and Chairman of DEWA, said that operational tests of the plant have begun in January 2025.
Al Tayer made the announcement during a monitoring visit to review the progress of the plant, which is the first of its kind in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
The project, which is 96.82 percent complete, is designed to generate electricity from water stored in the Hatta Dam and a new dam in the mountains. The plant will have a generating capacity of 250 megawatts (MW) and a storage capacity of 1,500 megawatt-hours, with a useful life of up to 80 years.
The power plant was built with an investment of 1.421 billion.
The DEWA chairman stated that the project supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Zero Carbon Strategy 2050, which aims to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s electricity generation capacity from clean energy sources by 2050.
During his visit to the power plant, Altair was briefed on the final stages of construction, including the completion of the installation of generators. Preparations are currently underway for operational testing in the first quarter of 2025.
The hydroelectric power plant is designed as an energy storage facility with a recovery efficiency of 78.9 percent. The plant uses the potential energy of water stored in the upper dam and converts it into kinetic energy.
This kinetic energy rotates turbines, converting mechanical energy into electrical energy that can be transmitted to the DEWA grid within 90 seconds.
For energy storage, clean energy generated at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will be used to pump water to an upper dam, converting electrical energy into kinetic energy in the process.
Al Tayer made the announcement during a monitoring visit to review the progress of the plant, which is the first of its kind in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
The project, which is 96.82 percent complete, is designed to generate electricity from water stored in the Hatta Dam and a new dam in the mountains. The plant will have a generating capacity of 250 megawatts (MW) and a storage capacity of 1,500 megawatt-hours, with a useful life of up to 80 years.
The power plant was built with an investment of 1.421 billion.
The DEWA chairman stated that the project supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Zero Carbon Strategy 2050, which aims to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s electricity generation capacity from clean energy sources by 2050.
During his visit to the power plant, Altair was briefed on the final stages of construction, including the completion of the installation of generators. Preparations are currently underway for operational testing in the first quarter of 2025.
The hydroelectric power plant is designed as an energy storage facility with a recovery efficiency of 78.9 percent. The plant uses the potential energy of water stored in the upper dam and converts it into kinetic energy.
This kinetic energy rotates turbines, converting mechanical energy into electrical energy that can be transmitted to the DEWA grid within 90 seconds.
For energy storage, clean energy generated at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will be used to pump water to an upper dam, converting electrical energy into kinetic energy in the process.
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Source : news agency wam
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