Publish Date : 20-Feb-2015
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, and With the support of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE), His Excellency Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the DSCE and MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Chairman of The Organizing Committee for the World Green Economy Summit (WGES), today hosted a press conference at Armani Hotel to provide further details about the second World Green Economy Summit (“WGES”) 2015.
The Summit, due to be held on 22nd and 23rd April 2015 under the theme "Global Partnerships, Sustainable Future”, will build on the Dubai Declaration, a key outcome of WGES 2014, a list of commitments agreed by Dubai in order to enable the Emirate to develop into the Capital of the Green Economy. During the event, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer commenced with some of the words of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, “We must continuously innovate, or we will stagnate.”
“In line with His Highness’ vision and innovation strategy for 2015, we have been developing strategies to promote sustainable development and green initiatives and partnerships, aiming to encourage innovation within key national sectors like renewable energy with the purpose of making our country a global hub for green economy. This is also a result of Dubai Declaration announced last year to make Dubai a capital of green economy and a role model on both regional and international levels,” said His Excellency.
“Today, we expand our relentless efforts to achieve our goals of green economy and sustainable development. We previously set ourselves the goal of ensuring that 7% of our energy requirements were met by renewables by 2020. At the start of this year, we committed ourselves to raise our target to 15% by 2030. DEWA also achieved great success in the low cost of production of photovoltaic energy according to the independent producer system implemented in the tender for the second project of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, and has doubled the capacity of production from 100 megawatts to 200 megawatts to run in 2017 with an independent producer system,” said His Excellency,” said His Excellency.
“To support this, DEWA also launched an operational plan to reduce energy demand by 30%, including eight major programs: specifications and regulations of green buildings, retrofitting of existing buildings, districts central cooling, raise standards and efficiency of equipment and lighting, reusing treated water for irrigation, the efficiency of external lighting, loads management.
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