|
Managing
Director & CEO's Statement on Thermal Insulation
Your Excellency Mr. Qassim Sultan - Director General
of Dubai Municipality
Ladies & Gentlemen
On
behalf of DEWA and myself, I am pleased to welcome
you, and thank the Municipality for its great
efforts to the service of the society.
We
are here today to launch the campaign for thermal
insulation in buildings, which is the fruit of
the cooperation at all levels between the Municipality
and DEWA.
The
application of the thermal insulation is one of
the outcomes of such cooperation, and we are here
to launch the joint awareness campaign to enhance
the society awareness about the importance of
thermal insulation application.
The
nature of the environment, high temperature and
the need to use air-conditions resulted in high
consumption of electricity. The thermal insulation
system will reduce the consumption of electricity
in air-conditioning by 40%, which will benefit
customers, proprietors and the general public
and will be a great incentive for initiating its
application.
The
peak load of electricity last year reached 2442
MW, marking an annual increase of 9%, and in order
to meet this development, DEWA started enhancing
its generation capabilities by 1200 MW, and thereby
are tenders that will be floated for the construction
of 700 MW stations, which will cost billions of
Dirhams.
The
Authority adopted the Demand side management for:
- Reducing
capital and operational expenditure for construction
of power stations, transmission, and distribution
networks.
- Application
of programs for the rationalization of power
consumption, which constitutes the thermal
insulation as its backbone.
- Reduction
of the system peak load, which contributes
to enhancing its efficiency and performance.
- Reduction
of electricity demand growth for electricity
without affecting the national economy.
- Reduction
of the line loss in the electric system and
for customers.
- Reduction
of electricity power cost for the customers
and DEWA.
Enhancing
the efficiency of the electric system will positively
reflect on the environment due to the reduction
of gaseous emissions from the power stations,
which will contribute towards preservation of
the environment, and rationalization of the natural
resources such as heavy fuel, gas, water, etc.,
and will contribute in the sustainable development
processes.
DEWA
uses the most modern technologies for the preservation
of environment such as the equipment for reduction
of the gaseous emissions by switching to natural
gas, which is environmentally considered the cleanest
fuel.
The
conversion from the simple to combined cycle in
most power stations, contributed to enhancing
the efficiency of the power stations by 30-45%,
and the thermal efficiency by 84% in "G"
Station, which led to the reduction of the gaseous
emissions and contributed to the preservation
of environment.
We
wish also to compliment the Chairman of the Thermal
Insulation Committee and the Committee members
for their extensive efforts in the preparation
of the technical information and media materials
for proceeding in the application of this system
in buildings, which solicit our thanks and appreciation.
We
wish to reiterate our thanks to H. E. the Director
General of Municipality, and the audience and
invite all public media to cooperate with us in
spreading the awareness of thermal insulation
for their important role in this respect and serving
society.
Thank
you
Back
to Introduction
|
