Dubai: The Dubai Supreme Council of Energy has established an agency to manage the power demands of the emirate in line with the Dubai Integrated Energy Strategy to reduce energy demand by 30 per cent by 2030.
The decision was made during the council’s 30th board meeting chaired by Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, attended by Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, Vice-Chairman of the Supreme Council of Energy, and Ahmad Butti Al Muhairabi, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Energy, and other officials.
“To achieve this goal, the Council has agreed to establish an agency, under the name ‘Efficiency,’ to manage power demands,” Al Tayer said.
The agency will operate under the umbrella of the Supreme Council of Energy to oversee and implement the Demand Side Management strategy, which focuses on eight programmes to manage energy demand including regulations for green building construction, retrofitting of existing buildings, district cooling, wastewater reuse, laws and standards to raise efficiency, and energy-efficient street lighting.
“In the first phase, the agency will oversee retrofitting of government buildings to achieve the vision of the Supreme Council of Energy to make Dubai a model for safe and effective use of energy,” Al Tayer said.
The move is in line with the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to diversify the energy mix by 2030 to comprise 71 per cent from natural gas, 12 per cent from nuclear power, 12 per cent from clean coal, and 5 per cent from solar power. Nuclear energy to generate electricity is also one of the options in the discussion.
