DEWA explores energy sector collaboration with US EPRI

Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA) and the Electrical Energy Analysis Institute (EPRI), the main US group for electrical energy analysis and improvement, have explored collaboration within the area of renewable vitality coaching, community modernization, and vitality storage options.

The discussions came about throughout a go to by a high-level delegation from EPRI, led by Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO of EPRI, to DEWA’s headquarters. The delegation was obtained by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA. Waleed bin Salman, Government Vice President of Enterprise Growth and Excellence at DEWA, and Ghanem Al Qassim, Senior Supervisor of Photo voltaic Energy at DEWA, attended the assembly.

The DEWA-EPRI assembly additionally targeted on strengthening strategic collaboration in analysis and improvement (R&D), sustainability and innovation within the vitality sector.

Al Tayer highlighted DEWA’s dedication to cooperate with main analysis and innovation facilities worldwide to refine nationwide competencies and equip them with the talents and experience wanted to steer the long run, tackle key roles in local weather motion, and speed up the vitality transition and digital transformation.

This was in keeping with DEWA’s complete imaginative and prescient to advertise sustainability and international targets, constructing a extra sustainable future primarily based on superior and eco-friendly options to realize the Dubai Clear Power Technique 2050 and the Dubai Internet Zero Carbon Emissions Technique 2050, which purpose to offer one hundred pc of Dubai’s vitality manufacturing capability from clear vitality sources by 2050.

Areas of cooperation between DEWA and EPRI embody specialised packages and coaching programs in sensible grids, vitality effectivity, asset administration evaluation, cyber safety, sustainability within the electrical energy sector, information evaluation, renewable vitality programs and the combination of photovoltaic programs.

These packages play a pivotal position in enhancing DEWA workers’ capacity to anticipate and form a sustainable future, whereas additionally offering alternatives for researchers and engineers to trade technical experience and deepen their data of the newest developments within the area.

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