Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in New York that he will visit Israel too once Benjamin Netanyahu will have visited Turkey. Erdogan, after meeting with Netanyahu, added that drilling work with Israel will be started soon and operating transmission lines to Turkey and further to Europe will also...

Dubai, UAE--Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has pressed into service seven new 132 transmission substations in the first half of 2023, in line with its ongoing efforts to enhance the reliability and availability of the energy transmission system in the Emirate. The projects included 36 kilometres of 132kV ground...

Baghdad, Iraq--A fire at an electricity substation in southern Iraq triggered a nationwide power outage Saturday, authorities said, just as demand peaks amid the searing summer heat. Electricity is a sensitive political issue in Iraq as despite the country's huge oil reserves, its dilapidated power grid is incapable of meeting peak demand...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA -  A new US$60 million loan by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and partners is expected to significantly strengthen energy security in northwest Tanzania. The project will include constructing a 166km overhead transmission line connecting the Kagera region to the national grid, replacing the current energy...

DUBAI, UAE -  Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned six new 132/11 kV transmission substations from January to the end of April 2023 with a conversion capacity of 900 megavolt-amperes (MVA), and a cost of US$151 million (AED555 million). The new transmission substations are in Al Jaddaf, Tilal...

DUBAI, UAE - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) extended water transmission pipelines of 64 kilometers lengths in several areas here in 2022 at a cost of around US$97 million (AED 358 million). The pipelines have a diameters of 600, 900 and 1200 mm in different areas across Dubai. The...

DUBAI, UAE -  MD & CEO of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer discussed consolidating cooperation and integration with UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MoEI). This is part of a series of mutual visits to enhance cooperation between government organisations in the UAE. The...

DUBAI, UAE -  Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) inaugurated 17 new substations in 2022. These include fifteen 132kV stations with a conversion capacity of 2,280 megavolt amperes (MVA) and two 400kV stations with a conversion capacity of 4,000 MVA, in Al Qusais Industrial Area 5 and Jebel Ali First....

Islamabad, Pakistan--A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Monday affected most of the country's more than 220 million people, including in the mega cities of Karachi and Lahore. Pakistan's electricity distribution system is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading...

DUBAI, UAE - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned a new 132/11kV substations in Al Awir First with a transmission capacity of 150 MVA, at a total cost of US$49 million (AED180 million). DEWA also inaugurated a new transmission 400/132kV substation in Jebel Ali First and overhead cables...

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) recorded substantial growth of 22 percent in investments allocated to transmission substations during the first half of 2022, compared to the same period last year.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) commissioned a new 400/132 kV substation in Al Qusais Industrial Area 5, and 10 new 132/11 kV substations in different areas in Dubai, during the first half of 2022.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has completed 98.83% of its project to extend its water transmission network by 36 kilometers across Dubai, at a total cost of about AED 266 million ($72.42m)

Policymakers, business leaders, and industry experts from the energy industry will converge in Dubai next week to participate in Middle East Energy, formerly Middle East Electricity. The event will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre, from 7th-9th March, under the theme, "Guiding you through the energy transition". It...

DEWA achieved a new world record in electricity Customer Minutes Lost (CML) per year, recording 1.66 minutes in Dubai

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has inaugurated 16 new substations in 2021 at the cost of about AED2.928 billion ($797 million). These include fourteen 132kV stations with a conversion capacity of 2,100 megavolt amperes and two 400kV stations with 4,000 megavolt amperes in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum...

Courtesy DEWA, World Bank says firms in UAE can get electricity in the shortest time in the world