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HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is heading a delegation to the USA after receiving an official invitation from the US Department of Energy to participate in the Solar Decathlon competition, organised by the US Department of Energy, in Irvine, California, from 14-18 October, 2015. 

The delegation includes HE Ahmed Buti Al Muhairbi, Secretary General of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, Saif Al Alili, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Museum of the Future Foundation, Waleed Salman, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at DEWA, Dr. Yousef Al Akraf, Executive Vice President of Business Support and Human Resources at DEWA, Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation, Mohammed Al Shamsi, Vice President of Civil Projects Engineering & Water Maintenance, Pedro Banda, Director of Research & Development in DEWA, and Ahmed Abdullah, Senior Manager of External Communication. 

On the first day of the visit, Al Tayer and the delegation visited the Smart Grid Energy Research Centre at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to exchange best practices and look at the latest international practices, experiences, and innovations in solar energy, renewable energy, smart grids, and electric vehicle infrastructures. They also visited “La Kretz Innovation Campus- LA Cleantech Incubator”, which includes research and development centres for energy, water, clean technologies, solar power, energy efficiency, and green economy. “The visit supports the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy's, and DEWA’s, continuing commitment to adopt future opportunities and promising projects that promote green practices. 

This reflects Dubai's global and leading role as a global hub for green economy and a role model in energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainability, innovation and creativity, said Al Tayer. “DEWA’s smart-grid strategy for Dubai will be a comprehensive and unique experience. DEWA has developed a smart grid strategy: a key component of any smart city. We have developed plans and programmes for demand side management, energy efficiency and operational improvement under the smart grid strategy. 

These programmes include advanced metering infrastructure, asset management, demand-side management, distribution automation, information technology infrastructure, substation automation, system integration, telecommunications, and efficiency, reliability, and availability of energy supplies. DEWA is implementing the smart grid initiative, which will support the Smart Dubai initiative. This complements DEWA’s other initiatives to produce electricity from photovoltaic panels in buildings and connect it to DEWA’s grid, and build an infrastructure for electric vehicle charging stations” added Al Tayer.