Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that it will reduce the time required for new connections for customers in the commercial and industrial sectors to five days instead of seven, in one step, while continuing to exempt from delivery fees and insurance amount up to 150 kW.
Said Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Authority, said that the new step falls within the package of facilities provided by the Authority for industrial and commercial projects.
He added that these efforts have contributed to maintaining the UAE, represented by DEWA, ranked first in the world, for the third year in a row, in obtaining electricity, a full mark in all indicators of the axis, according to the World Bank's Doing Business 2020 report, which measures Ease of doing business in 190 economies around the world.
Al Tayer pointed out that the period required for the delivery of electricity in the UAE, represented by the Authority, is the lowest in the world, and that the Authority has obtained 100% in the standard of procedures for obtaining electricity, and the time required to complete the procedure of conducting electricity. It also obtained 100% in the cost standard, after canceling the cost of delivery and the amount of insurance for the categories of industrial and commercial projects for loads up to 150 kW. The TRA achieved a 100% mark in the network reliability and tariff transparency benchmark.It achieved competitive results in the global standard comparisons in the average annual power outages per subscriber, which reached 2.39 minutes per subscriber, compared with 15 minutes registered with the elite electricity companies in the European Union countries.