Emirates Water and Electricity Company praises the role of Emirati women in leading the transfer efforts in the energy sector

Abu Dhabi, August 27 / WAM / The Emirates Water and Electricity Company praised the main role played by Emirati women in drawing features of the future of the water and electricity sector in Abu Dhabi, through their direct supervision of a group of the most ambitious energy transmission projects in the world, including accelerating the integration of renewable energy, enhancing the production of low carbon water, and ensuring the reliability of the network.

The company said on the occasion of the country’s celebrations of Emirati Women’s Day that it is making great efforts to enable Emirati cadres to the female component, to increase the number of Emirati female employees who occupy major operational positions in the company to more than 20% of the total number of company employees, working in major departments, including assets, institutional services, technology, finance, legal affairs, governance, risks, compliance, operations, and strategy And growth.

In this context, Khawla Al -Nuaimi, Executive Director of the Human Resources Department at the Emirates Water and Electricity Company, said: “The Emirates Water and Electricity Company is proud of the presence of a group of Emirati colleagues who embody a model to be followed in excellence and ambition in one of the most vital and strategic sectors in the UAE.

Empowering Emirati women is a basic pillar within our vision, and embodying the directions of the company that believes in the ability of the state citizens to contribute to the active contribution to the development process. The experience of our Emirati colleagues and their ability to take over work tasks with merit is evidence of their primary role in achieving the company’s strategic goals, and moving towards a low -carbon economy, in line with the sustainable development goals in the country.

In line with the slogan of the Emirati Women’s Day for the year 2025 “hands in the hands we celebrate in the fifty”, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the General Women’s Union in 1975, the Emirates Water and Electricity Company continues to work to develop Emirati competencies of the female component, through leadership paths that are based on developing technical skills and counseling programs, and this includes specific initiatives for professional development, and an opportunity to identify strategic projects, and provide courses Specialized in several areas such as network operations, refining water in reverse, renewable energy integration, network improvement, and technical and economic planning, ensuring the qualification of Emirati women to lead the next stage of the transition plan in the energy sector.

Emirati women participate in the Emirates Water and Electricity Company mainly in accelerating the transition in the energy sector in the country, and their contributions through the vital functions they perform in reducing carbon emissions in the production of water and electricity by developing solar PVs, wind energy, and water desalination projects with low carbon osmosis, in addition to supporting the integration of clean energy into the network through operating excellence and the reliability of the system, where it contributes The main roles of Emirati women in accelerating the achievement of the targets of the Clean Energy Strategic Energy Department for the year 2035 to produce electricity in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and to enhance the strategic state initiative to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

As the Emirates Water and Electricity Company has come to develop the most ambitious project in the world to move in the field of renewable and clean energy, the role of Emirati women is increasing in an effective manner, which confirms the aspirations of the rational leadership of the UAE and its vision to make Emirati women a major element of the progress witnessed by the state.

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