Dubai's energy demand up 5.4pc in FY2024
DUBAI, 9 days ago
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that there had been a spurt in energy demand across the emirate in FY 2024 which rose to 59,594 gigawatt hours (GWh), up 5.4% over the previous year's figure of 56,516 GWh.
Dewa's installed generation capacity reached 17.179 GW, while clean power accounts for 20% of the total installed power generation capacity, said the Dubai utility in a statement.
This supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy 2050 to provide 100 percent of the energy production capacity from clean energy sources by 2050, it added.
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Announcing this, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO, said Dewa continues to boost the capacity of transmission and distribution networks as it develops top-class electricity and water infrastructure to keep pace with Dubai's population growth and the steady expansion of the emirate's economic activities.
"We have witnessed an impressive 3.4% increase in its peak demand in 2024 compared to 2023, reaching 10.76 GW," he added.-TradeArabia News Service
