HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA), has introduced that DEWA’s strategic investments in electrical energy transmission community tasks now exceed AED 10 billion. He attributed DEWA’s sustained funding in strategic tasks to the sensible directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and High Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, whose imaginative and prescient has situated Dubai as an international benchmark for steady enlargement and infrastructure high quality.
Al Tayer famous that DEWA commissioned 8 132kV substations within the first part of 2026, with a complete conversion capability of one,200 megavolt-amperes (MVA) at a price of AED 970 million. This incorporated the extension of 20km of transmission cables.
He added that DEWA additionally commissioned a 400/132kV transmission substation in Saih Al Dahal inside the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sun Park, with a complete conversion capability of two,000MVA at a price of AED 630 million. The challenge incorporated the development of 117km of 400kV overhead transmission strains.
The tasks required greater than 9 million operating hours and had been delivered in step with the perfect requirements of potency, reliability and protection, and supported through the newest virtual applied sciences.Al Tayer additional famous that DEWA is these days construction 65 new 132kV substations and one 400kV substation, in collaboration with its primary contractors and providers. Over the following 3 years, DEWA plans to factor new tenders for greater than 30 further 132kV substations. It additionally plans to increase 340km of underground transmission cables and assemble two 400kV substation.
“In line with the objectives of the Dubai Economic Agenda D33 and the Dubai Social Agenda 33, we are committed to meeting current and future requirements, keeping in pace with growing electricity demand and expanding our infrastructure as a key driver of economic and social development,” mentioned Al Tayer.
Hussain Lootah, Government Vice President of Transmission Energy at DEWA, highlighted that the newly commissioned substations quilt a number of necessary spaces, together with a 132kV substation in Madinat Hind 4 to satisfy the ability wishes of nationwide housing tasks. Moreover, seven 132kV substations had been commissioned in Al Khairan First, Al Layan First, Nad Al Sheba First, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Gardens, Al Barsha South Fourth, Me’aisem 2nd and Al Manara. He famous DEWA had 402 transmission substations through the tip of the primary part of 2026, with 28 on the 400kV stage and 374 on the 132kV stage.
Moreover, right through the primary part of the yr, 21 contracts had been awarded for the development of 132kV transmission substations throughout a number of districts in Dubai, together with Al Barsha South Fourth and 5th, Al Jaddaf, Al Yalayis First, Al Yufrah First, Bu Kadra, Jebel Ali First, Airport Town, Me’aisem First and 2nd, Saih Al-Dahal, Umm Suqeim First, Wadi Al Safa 3rd, Warsan 2nd and Fourth and Zabeel 2nd. DEWA additionally awarded contracts to increase 132kV cables to glue those substations to the principle community, overlaying a complete of 64km at an total value of AED 3 billion.
