Dubai utility provider to generate $22 bln energy savings by 2030: report

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) plans to generate energy savings of up to AED 82 billion ($22.34 billion) by 2030 after retrofitting more than 30,000 buildings, Waleed Salman, executive vice president, business development and excellent at DEWA told The National.

Dubai has saved about AED 1.2 billion over the past decade due to its efforts to conserve electricity and water and plans to reduce carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2021 as well as energy and water use by 30 percent by 2030.

The utility provider plans to roll out many retrofit projects and accrue energy savings of 182.6-kilowatt hours by 2030. The cumulative costs to drive Dubai’s efficiency program up to 2030 are estimated to be around AED 30 billion, the daily reported.

DEWA also plans to deploy up to 554 photovoltaic panels on the rooftops of homes in the Dubai exclave of Hatta and retrofit 2,092 facilities and buildings in the emirate in partnership with Etihad Esco, it added.