Renewable Green Leaders Magazine: Promoting a Sustainable Future for Generations to Come by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
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Exclusive: H.E. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer (MD & CEO of DEWA), ABB clean future, Kingspan PalDuct for Dubai Sustainable City, PAYG, Dubai Science Park, Bill Gates, Hilti.
Special Feature Stories: Biomass energy, Geothermal energy, Hydro energy, Green buildings, Recycle, Solar, Sustainability, Upcycle, Energy storage, Tidal energy, Waste management, Wind energy, Circular Economy, Power generation, Cogeneration, Water and Wastewater, Utilities.
Country Focus: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Australia.
More engineering stories at https://www.gineersnow.com/topics/magazines
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solar projects across the world,” said Mostafa<br />
AlGuezeri, Managing Direc<strong>to</strong>r, ABB, UAE <strong>and</strong><br />
Gulf Countries.<br />
Supporting <strong>Dubai</strong>’s vision of building a worldclass<br />
smart city, the <strong>Sustainable</strong> City is<br />
becoming the first fully integrated community<br />
powered completely <strong>by</strong> solar energy. To help<br />
achieve this miles<strong>to</strong>ne, the development will<br />
rely on 400 ABB string inverters <strong>to</strong> harness the<br />
power of the sun <strong>for</strong> the residents.<br />
Conceived <strong>and</strong> built <strong>by</strong> <strong>Dubai</strong>-based Diamond<br />
Developers, the <strong>Sustainable</strong> City is the new<br />
home <strong>to</strong> some 2,000 people in an area of nearly<br />
500,000 square meters. When at full capacity,<br />
it will eventually generate 10 megawatt-peak<br />
(MWp) of power from solar panels on private <strong>and</strong><br />
public buildings within the city. As well as solar<br />
powered homes, the <strong>Sustainable</strong> City features<br />
solar powered chargers <strong>for</strong> electric cars; a hotel<br />
powered 100 percent <strong>by</strong> solar energy <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Diamond Innovation Centre, the first educational<br />
institute <strong>to</strong> use net zero energy over its lifetime.<br />
Working closely with the developers <strong>to</strong> design<br />
the solar power system <strong>for</strong> the villas, ABB<br />
supplied a string inverter demonstration unit at<br />
the start of the project <strong>to</strong> prove it could cope<br />
with the high outdoor temperatures experienced<br />
in <strong>Dubai</strong>.<br />
Models supplied under the contract were the<br />
PVI 5000, PVI 12.5, TRIO 7.5 <strong>and</strong> TRIO 8.5. ABB<br />
also supplied inverters <strong>for</strong> a 1.4 megawatt (MW)<br />
parking lot solar roof project. This will charge<br />
the electric cars, which will only power vehicles<br />
allowed within the city limits.<br />
Iconic renewable projects<br />
ABB has been established in the Middle<br />
East since 1926 <strong>and</strong> has the honor of being<br />
associated with l<strong>and</strong>mark projects like the Burj<br />
Khalifa, Yas Viceroy , <strong>Dubai</strong> Metro – <strong>to</strong> name a<br />
few; ABB has been playing a vital role in bringing<br />
clean power across the globe <strong>for</strong> over 100 years.<br />
Some recent projects <strong>for</strong> the company include<br />
powering the world’s largest floating solar<br />
pho<strong>to</strong>voltaic test bed in Singapore.<br />
L<strong>and</strong> scarcity has severely limited Singapore’s<br />
42 <strong>Renewable</strong> <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Leaders</strong> • July 2017
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