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Dewa's Power, Water Schemes Achieve $326mn Savings

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that its conservation programmes and initiatives over the past 10 years have achieved significant savings in electricity and water use within various stakeholder groups.

 

Cumulative savings between 2009 and 2018 reached 2 terrawatt hours (TWh) of electricity and 7.4 billion gallons of water, equivalent to Dh1.2 billion ($326 million), said a statement from Dewa.

 

These savings were achieved in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, educational institutions, governmental and semi-governmental organizations. These savings contributed to reducing one million tonnes of carbon emissions.

 

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, the managing director and CEO of Dewa, praised the results achieved by customers in the different sectors.

 

He emphasized that these savings proved the importance of participation of all customer sectors in conservation efforts to protect the environment. He also commended consumers in the commercial sector who achieved the most savings in electricity and water.

 

"In line with its vision to become a globally leading sustainable innovative corporation, Dewa adopts an integrated strategy to raise awareness on the importance of rationalizing consumption and involving all society members in efforts to protect the environment and preserve natural resources," he noted.

 

Dewa’s conservation programmes that it launches throughout the year, include a number of innovative awareness initiatives and activities that target all customer sectors," said Al Tayer.

 

Over the past decade, savings in the commercial sector amounted to 1.2 TWh of electricity (10 per cent) and 4.3 billion gallons of water (28 per cent).

 

The residential sector achieved savings of 68 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity (18 per cent) and 500 million gallons of water (27 per cent). The industrial sector achieved savings of 112 GWh of electricity (15 per cent) and 211 million gallons of water (29 per cent).

 

Government and semi-government organizations achieved savings of 426 GWh of electricity (12 per cent) and 1 billion gallons of water (21 per cent). Educational institutions achieved savings of 213 GWh of electricity (10 per cent) and 1.3 billion gallons of water (24 per cent).

 

These savings are equivalent to an annual electricity consumption from approximately 305,000 apartments and annual water consumption of 241,000 apartments.

 

This has contributed to reducing one million tonnes of carbon emissions equivalent to planting 1.2 million trees and the consumption of 122 million LED lights, while water saving was equivalent to filling up 13,000 Olympic swimming pools.

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