Hatta exports the energy to Dubai

Saeed Mohammed Al -Tayer, Managing Director, CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, announced the start of the experimental operation and the export of electricity from the electrical station with water power technology stored in Hatta to Dubai, during his visit to the project to see the progress of work in the last stages, as the amount of energy produced during the last period of the operating experiences of the station exceeded 17921 megawatts.

The productive capacity of the station will reach 250 megawatts and its storage capacity of 1,500 megawatts of an hour and a life life of up to 80 years. The maximum rate of need for the Hatta area of electricity is about 39 megawatts, and the surplus will be exported to Dubai.

Al -Tayer was accompanied on his tour, Eng. Nasser Lootah, CEO of the President for the Production Sector; And Engineer Khalifa Al -Badawi, Director of the Project; And the project team.

Saeed Al -Tayer stressed that the project comes to achieve 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 bless him, to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development throughout the Emirate of Dubai, and supports the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the carbon neutrality strategy 2050 for the Emirate of Dubai with the aim of providing 100% of the total production capacity of energy in Dubai from clean energy sources by 2050.

Al -Tayer visited the building of the electric power plant, which was created at a depth of 60 meters underground, and was seen on the mechanism of the main valve of water in the station, which each weighs about 110 tons. He also visited the control and control center for the station and witnessed one of the operational experiments of the water pumping and power generation. The visit included the Al -Sadd Al -Alawi area, which was established by the authority within the electromagnet project in Hatta, with a total area of the water surface of up to 210,000 square meters.

The dam consists of two walls of compressed concrete, and it includes a main wall with a height of 72 meters and a length of 225 meters, and a side wall with a height of 37 meters. The capacity of the upper dam is about 5.3 million cubic meters (1166 million gallons) of water.

Al -Tayer pointed out that the electrical station project in Hatta, whose investment is about 1.42 billion dirhams, comes within the authority’s projects and initiatives to diversify the sources of production and storage of renewable and clean energy in Dubai, which include various available technologies, including photovoltaic and concentrated solar energy, and storing energy with batteries.

The project aims to generate electricity by taking advantage of the water stored in the Hatta Dam and Al -Alawi Dam. The station relies on the water stored in the Hatta Dam and the Alawite Dam, where the water is pumped using advanced turbines based on clean energy from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Complex.

These turbines operate in reverse water pumping into the upper dam to store energy, and then use it to generate electricity through the flow of water from the upper dam to the Hatta Dam through a 1.2 km underground water tunnel.

The efficiency of the electricity production and storage system will reach 78.9%, with an immediate response to the energy demand in 90 seconds.