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Dewa main Substation at Al Barshaa to cost Dh 400m

Dubai - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) continues its development projects aiming to enhance and upgrade the capacity of its infrastructure to keep pace with the growth of demand for its services and to meet its aspirations to optimize these services so as to achieve efficiency and reliability. As part of this relentless pursuit, Dewa continues supporting its high voltage 132/400 KV transmission grid.

In this context, it has launched a 400 KV main Substation with a transformation capacity of 2020 Megavolt Ampere in Al Barshaa area during the second quarter of this year. The cost of this Substation is around AED 400 million so as to secure the ever-growing demand for electricity for different purposes.

His Excellency Saeed Mohamed Al Tayer Managing Director and CEO of Dewa, stated: ‘Dewa’s efforts come within the framework of enhancing the efficiency of its grids to meet the growth of demand for its services, and going on with implementing its vital projects especially in the field of infrastructure. These efforts are in line with the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, which aim to consolidate Dubai’s leading position in the region as well as enhancing its role as a world hub for economy and finance.’

‘With a cost up to aed 400m, the project aims to extend enhance the capacity of Dewa’s grids of power transmission at Al Barshaa. Dewa has extended overhead lines at the length of 1200 m to join the lines connecting the main Substation at Al Barshaa with generation substations at Jebel Ali, whose length reaches around 43 Km. this will definitely optimize its efficiency and reliability and ensure an uninterrupted and stable power supply to all various segments of consumers at all times,’ His Excellency further added.

Al Tayer pointed out: ‘These substations apply the most state-of-the-art digital technologies for Substations, contributing to promoting their efficiency and reliability. All these relentless efforts will eventually serve Dubai’s ambitious urban and economic plans. Furthermore, there are still 5 transformation substations underway. Also, the existing substations in the grid are being developed through raising their transformational capacity and introducing the latest approved world technologies.’