Renewable Green Leaders Magazine: Promoting a Sustainable Future for Generations to Come by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)

Photo courtesy of ABB
Photo courtesy of ABB
Photo courtesy of ABB
adoption of solar power. Floating panels could
be eleven percent more efficient than solar
panels placed on precious land. Pioneering
technology leader ABB is providing critical
components on a landmark one megawatt
floating solar photovoltaic test-bed. It
measures 1 hectare or 1.5 football fields. The
energy generated will be fed into the national
energy grid, providing electricity for up to 250
households.
ABB has also recently commissioned and
handed over the DolWin2 offshore wind
transmission link to the Dutch-German
transmission system operator TenneT.
DolWin2 is the third offshore wind connection
project that ABB has executed for TenneT
in Germany’s North Sea, following BorWin1
and DolWin1. The high voltage direct current
(HVDC) link connects offshore wind farms to the
mainland grid, and has the capacity to supply
more than a million households with renewable
energy.
DolWin2 supports Germany’s “Energiewende”
roadmap, which aims to generate more than 6.5
gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power by 2020,
and 15 GW by 2030.
“As a pioneering technology leader in
electrification products, robotics and motion,
industrial automation and power grids,
ABB today is writing the future of industrial
digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth
Industrial Revolutions,” adds AlGuezeri. “We are
proud of our projects across the globe and in the
region and are committed to continue supporting
utility providers like DEWA in bringing world
class technology to smart cities like Dubai,” he
said.
ABB operates in more than 100 countries with
about 132,000 employees.
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