The recent conversion of DEWA’s Hassyan Power Complex from clean coal to gas will add 1,200MW to Dubai’s capacity.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) will add a total of 1,200MW to Dubai’s grid via an Independent Power Producer (IPP) agreement.
According to the utility, an additional 600MW will be added in Q4 of 2022 and another 600MW by Q3 of 2023, raising the capacity of the Hassyan Power Complex, which has been converted recently to run only on natural gas instead of clean coal, to 2,400MW.
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The Hassyan Power Complex was initially designed and built-for-purpose as a dual-fuel plant with the ability to operate full-time on both natural gas and clean coal. It now relies only on natural gas.
In a release from DEWA, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, said this adds to the Jebel Ali Power Plant and Water Desalination Complex as one of the key pillars to providing Dubai with quality electricity and water services reliability and efficiency.
Jebel Ali’s production capacity is 9,547MW, with DEWA’s total production capacity now 13,417MW, which includes 1,527MW of renewable energy using photovoltaic solar panels from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
“The Hassyan Power Complex … adopts the latest technologies in energy production. The power plant’s turbines were originally designed to operate on dual fuels: gas and clean coal. So, when we decided to convert the complex to run on natural gas, there was no downtime and the conversion process went smoothly. This step supports the vision and directives of the wise leadership to turn Dubai into a carbon-neutral economy. This also supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy 2050 to provide 100% of Dubai’s total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050. The move also supports our efforts to diversify energy sources and secure energy supplies to ensure providing electricity services according to the highest standards of reliability, availability and efficiency,” said Al Tayer.
The Hassyan Power Complex also includes a water desalination project with a production capacity of 120 million imperial gallons per day using reverse osmosis (RO) and utilises an Independent Water Producer model.
New RO stations are currently underway, as they use less energy compared to Multi-Stage Flash, which makes it the best option for water desalination.
Originally published by Claire Volkwyn on esi-africa.com
