DEWA wins 9 awards at Ideas America 2016

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) won in 9 awards the Ideas America international competition, which took place recently in Georgia, USA. This reflects DEWA’s level of excellence across a number of different fields.

DEWA won two golden awards in the Best Communication Excellence category and Best Evaluator of the Year category. It won three silver awards in the Idea of the Year, the Best Program Administrator and Best Executive Leadership. It also scooped up two bronze awards in the Team Idea of the Year category. DEWA also won the Advocate of the Year Award, and the Kudos Award for Safety Idea of the Year- Honourable Mention Award.

“Our winning of 9 awards at the Ideas America international competition is a result of outstanding creative and innovative ideas, in adherence with the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, to integrate innovation as a daily government practice, for a well-established culture, making Dubai government among the most innovative in the world.

DEWA adopts innovation as a major government value and seeks to cooperate with the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to improve our government performance in all fields and use innovation to develop government services to face challenges and further develop Dubai’s involvement in international affairs,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.

Al Tayer said the awards demonstrate DEWA’s position as an international pioneer to shine light on its employees and their outstanding efforts that have made the UAE proud on many international occasions. Al Tayer congratulated the winners, as well as everybody that played a part in achieving these awards.

“DEWA continues its journey of excellence and continuous achievements. Not a week passes by without us receiving a new award or success to add to our long list of accomplishments on a local, regional and global scale. One of our most prominent achievements this year was winning the most number of awards at the 9th Dubai Government Excellence Program. We continue to fulfil the vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum by not resting on our laurels.  DEWA continues to achieve success through its ambitious initiatives, development projects, and ongoing efforts to be at the forefront by adopting the highest international standards, in line with our vision to be a sustainable innovative world-class utility,” added Al Tayer.

The previous year in 2015, DEWA had won four awards at Ideas America for its suggestions from its Power and Water Planning, Power Distribution, and Power Transmission divisions. DEWA won silver awards for the Best Idea of the Year its Enhanced Medium Voltage (MV) cable efficiency and rating special backfilling material. It also won a bronze award for the Best Executive Leadership and an Honourable Mention for the 2015 Best Team Idea of the Year Award for the Optimisation of Lines Testing Process Approval, and the Kudos Award for Modification of Fire Pumps Maintenance in DEWA sub-stations.