Dubai Electricity and Water Authority launches 1,994 11 kV distribution stations during 2025

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, announced that the authority has launched 1,994 new 11 kilovolt distribution stations during the year 2025, compared to 1,530 stations during the year 2024, an increase of more than 30%. This achievement comes within the Authority’s strategy aimed at developing the electricity distribution network according to the highest standards of efficiency, reliability and quality.

Saeed Al Tayer said: “We continue to work in accordance with the vision and directives of the wise leadership to develop and expand the distribution network infrastructure in accordance with the highest international standards, ensuring that the growing demand for energy and water in Dubai is met, supports the rapid economic and urban growth in the emirate, meets demand expectations until 2030, and strengthens Dubai’s position as one of the best cities in the world to live, work and invest, in line with the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33) and the Dubai Urban Plan 2040. We adopt the latest technologies and digital solutions. In designing, implementing and operating distribution networks, which contributes to raising performance efficiency, enhancing readiness and flexibility, and providing world-class services that meet customers’ aspirations and exceed their expectations, as well as supporting Dubai’s trends towards carbon neutrality and sustainability.

For his part, Engineer Rashid bin Humaidan, Executive Vice President of the Energy Distribution Sector at the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, explained that work in the 11-kilovolt distribution stations and associated tasks during 2025 included more than 1.45 million working hours, in accordance with the highest health and safety standards, indicating that the total number of medium-voltage distribution stations (11 kilovolts and 6.6 kilovolts) reached 47,060 stations by the end of 2025.