Dubai is achieving the lowest electricity interruption period in the world

The Managing Director, CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Saeed Mohammed Al -Tayer, announced that the authority achieved the lowest electricity interruption period in the world, as it recorded only average of 0.94 minutes for each subscriber annually in 2024, to break the number it achieved in 2023, which amounted to 1.06 minutes, Compared to 15 minutes of a group of electricity companies in the European Union countries.

Saeed Al -Tayer said: “A translation of the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God preserve him, by providing a living quality for the population that is the best and the highest globally. We adopt a major approach to facilities management via a smart and interconnected network to provide our services according to the highest quality, availability, reliability, efficiency and sustainability standards, supporting Dubai urban plan 2040 and Dubai Economic Agency (D33) that seeks to consolidate Dubai’s position among the best 3 economic cities around the world. Reducing the rate of power outages for each subscriber in Dubai from 6.88 minutes annually in 2012 to only 0.94 minutes in 2024, which confirms our leadership in innovation and adopting the latest replacement technologies for the fourth industrial revolution to enhance the flexibility and agility of the authority and its readiness to keep pace with the increasing demand for electricity and water in Dubai.

Advanced properties

Al -Tayer added: “The smart network that we implement in stages with investments of 7 billion dirhams until 2035 is one of the tools that contributed to achieving this achievement, as it provides advanced characteristics that help enhance the efficiency of energy transport and distribution, reduce losses, and improve the management of electric loads. The programs that we launched under the umbrella of the smart network, the automated smart network restoration system, the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa region, to increase control, management and monitoring of the energy network remotely and around the clock without any human intervention, and depends on smart and innovative central systems, to determine the location of the holidays In the energy network, isolate it and restore the service automatically, it improves the network automation, detects faults, isolates them, and restores service as soon as possible. “

It is noteworthy that the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority won two awards within the “Asian Energy Awards” for 2024 in Singapore, which is one of the most prominent regional awards in the energy sector. The Authority won the “Best Innovative Energy Technology for the Year – UAE” for the “ALPS) project for the distribution network, and the” Smart Network Project for the Year – UAE “for the projects of automating the smart network for distribution stations.