AED 140 million investments to rationalize energy consumption at Dubai airports

Media In – Abu Dhabi 16 January
Dubai Airports is targeting 36% of its energy consumption in its buildings with investments worth more than AED 140 million in 4 phases, each lasting one year. Dubai Airports will provide more than AED 100 million by the end of the project in 2021.
Ali Al Jassim, CEO of Etihad Power Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), said the UAE has the largest photovoltaic installation project on rooftops in the Hatta area, which includes 640 homes and produces 3 kilowatts per household with a total output capacity of over 4 MW. Homeowners benefit from energy production estimated at 15% of their electricity bill and completed the project which comes within the comprehensive development plan launched by the leadership.
In a statement to the Emirates News Agency (WAM) during the second day of the World Future Energy Summit 2018 in Abu Dhabi, the Union aims to rationalize the consumption of energy in the Emirate of Dubai by 30% by 2030 to be among the best cities sustainable and an example in the rationalization of consumption globally where Energy consumption has been rationalized in more than 2,000 buildings on the ground, including government departments and homes