Ahmed bin Saeed chairs the Supreme Energy meeting in Dubai
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Energy in Dubai, chaired the sixty-fifth meeting of the Council, which was held remotely in the presence of the Council’s Vice President, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer.
The meeting discussed several topics, most notably Dubai Executive Council Resolution No. (6) for the year 2021 in regulating the provision of district cooling service in the Emirate of Dubai, with the aim of creating a legislative framework that regulates aspects related to providing district cooling service in the emirate to raise the efficiency of operating district cooling units and activities related to energy generation. Refrigeration, distribution and sale, including issuance of permits and complaints management.
The meeting also discussed the alignment of the circular economy with the strategy of managing demand for energy and water in Dubai and the establishment of a circular economy committee in the Supreme Council of Energy in Dubai.
Savings data for electricity and water consumption in the Emirate of Dubai for the year 2020 were also reviewed and ways to enhance the energy demand management strategy to enable the circular economy in Dubai, especially in the sectors of electricity, water, transport fuels and waste, and in line with the recently announced National Circular Economy Policy.
Al Tayer said that the meeting reviewed the details of the work plan to implement the legislative framework and laws related to issuing and organizing district cooling services to improve operational performance and provide better prices for customers of these services, as policies and laws will be implemented during the coming months that aim to increase the area of district cooling in the emirate from During the best practices and technologies, he also discussed the progress of implementation in the clean energy and demand management strategies that aim to reduce the demand for electricity and water by 30% by 2030 and also increase the production capacity in clean energy to 75% by the year 2050 in order to achieve the directives of the wise leadership and our efforts to achieve Reaching the goal of realizing Dubai's vision for the transition to a green economy.
For his part, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Energy, Ahmed Butti Al-Muhairbi, said that the Supreme Council of Energy and the Regulation and Supervision Bureau for the Electricity and Water Sector had, during the previous months, studied the appropriate regulatory framework for the central cooling market in Dubai with the participation of companies and institutions concerned with providing this service to reach the best practices that increase The efficiency of central cooling makes it the best choice for dealers while providing competitive prices to consumers and taking into consideration the development of Dubai's infrastructure.
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