Until the energy is exported to Dubai

The Managing Director, CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Saeed Mohammed Al -Tayer, announced the start of the experimental operation and the export of electricity from the hydroelectric station with water power technology stored in Hatta to Dubai.

The announcement came during Al -Tayer’s visit to the project, accompanied by the CEO of the President for the Production Sector, Eng. Nasser Lootah, the project manager, Eng. Khalifa Al -Badawi, and the project team, to see the progress of the work progress in the last stages, as the amount of energy produced during the last period exceeded the operational experiences of the station 17921 megawatts.

The plant’s production capacity will be 250 megawatts, its storage capacity reaches 1,500 megawatts, with a life life of up to 80 years, while the maximum rate of need for the Hatta area of electricity is about 39 MW, and the surplus will be exported to Dubai.

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 Negotiation 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 general solutions 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 waters of the waters at the station, with the weight of each of them about 110 tons. He also visited the station control and control center, and witnessed one of the operational trials of the water pumping and power generation.

The visit included the Al -Sadd Al -Alawi area, which was established by the authority within the electrical station project in Hatta, with a total area of the water surface of up to 210 thousand 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 up to 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 panels, 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 that depend 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 by flowing water from the upper dam to the dam’s 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.