ADWEC 2008 Statement of Future Capacity Requirements 2008 ...

RSB Approved Version- 4 th August 2008
2. Statement Timetable
Along with the other monopoly companies in the sector, ADWEC is subject to a
rigorous Price Control regime that is enforced by the Regulatory and Supervision
Bureau. Under the terms of the current Price Control regime (PC3) one of ADWEC’s
performance indicators is the delivery of this Statement of Future Capacity
Requirements to the RSB by 30 th June 2008.
The preparation of the 2008 Statement was delayed because of the need to incorporate
the Urban Planning Council’s Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 into ADWEC’s Winter 2008 –
2030 demand forecasts. In this respect ADWEC was 100% dependent on the UPC to
provide the necessary additional information needed to complete the demand
forecasts, over and above the simple aggregates reported in the UPC’s published
report Plan Abu Dhabi 2030. The preparation of the 2008 Statement was also
somewhat delayed because of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Government’s desire to
provide some basic electricity and water support to the people of the Northern
Emirates. Details of these exports of electricity and water to the Northern Emirates
can be found in Annex A.
The various mega projects developers were also asked to ensure that their previous
electricity and water demand forecasts were still consistent with the UPC’s Plan. This
requirement for the mega projects’ developers to resubmit their demand forecasts
inevitably extended the preparation period for this Statement. This delay was
unavoidable however in order to ensure that the UPC’s Plan and the mega projects’
demand forecasts were as consistent as possible. Furthermore, the requirement to
include the high profile and fast-track KPIZ project necessitated ADWEC delaying
finalising the demand forecast until the KPIZ Masterplan became fully available and
ADWEC’s questions had been satisfactorily answered. The Regulation and
Supervision Bureau were formally informed in writing of the delays to the preparation
of the demand forecast in late 2007.
The final ADWEC Winter 2007 / 2008 demand forecasts were widely circulated
throughout the ADWEA Group of Companies on 25 th March 2008, as per the
electricity and water Transmission Codes requirements 4 .
The Master Agreement between ADWEA (on behalf of ADWEC) and FEWA was
signed on May 29 th 2008. The Master Agreement is the document governing
ADWEC’s exports of electricity to FEWA. These exports will reach a maximum of
2,500 MW by 2015. Only once the Master Agreement had been signed could
ADWEC begin the analysis required to prepare this Statement.
Despite the above delays being outside of ADWEC’s control, ADWEC continued its
endeavours to complete this Statement by the original June 30 th 2008 RSB deadline or
as soon as practically possible thereafter. The adopted timetable is shown below:
4 ADWEC Winter 2007/2008 Demand Forecasts Memorandum, March 25 th 2008, Reference
ADWEC/DPSD/GroupLtr/004/3.08, addressed to the Chairmen of the Electricity and Water
Transmission Codes.
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