Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, on Wednesday witnessed the signing of an agreement between the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority and Masdar to implement the sixth phase of the project to develop the world’s largest single-site solar photovoltaic power plant.
The sixth phase of the project will use PV solar panels based on the Independent Power Producer model, and has an estimated cost of Dh5.51 billion ($1.4 billion).
It will “provide energy for more than half a million homes and reduce energy consumption”, Sheikh Mohammed said on X, formerly Twitter.
“Work on all phases of this huge project will be completed in 2030 with a total investment of Dh50 billion. Our goal is 100 per cent clean energy for Dubai by 2050,” Sheikh Mohammed wrote.
The sixth phase of the project is set to be operational in stages starting from the fourth quarter of 2024, Dubai Media Office said in a statement on Wednesday.
Source: The National News
