Abu Dhabi will halve CO2 power gen emissions by 2025
Another Abu Dhabi commitment to a brighter future…
The opening of Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Unit 1 in Abu Dhabi has just leveled up the Emirate’s capability to cut the carbon count.
What is Abu Dhabi doing to lower carbon emissions?
When you also factor in Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy commitments, which include the construction of the world’s largest solar power plants and a pioneering reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant, the future is looking green, clean and decidedly carbon lean.
So lean in fact that these new energy and water processeing operations are forecasted to decrease CO2 emissions from the current 40 million tonnes we’re on track for in 2021 to just 20 million tonnes by 2025.
Investment in clean energy technologies to reduce CO2 emissions by 20 million tonnes EWEC forecasts a significant 50 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a shift towards more sustainable water and electricity production by 2025. Image Credit: Supplied
Abu Dhabi: EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) released its latest Statement of Future Capacity Requirements Summary Report for Abu Dhabi’s future water and electricity production.
The statement forecasts a significant 50 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a shift towards more sustainable water and electricity production by 2025, in addition to recommending a major investment programme in new reverse osmosis (RO) water desalination projects.
Ewec, which is part of ADQ holding company has been gradually lowering its carbon impact. The company s average carbon dioxide intensity from power generation fell 15 per cent to 350 grams per kilowatt-hour in 2018 from 412 grams/kWh in 2015 due to the commissioning of new energy-efficient plants.
The plan also recommends increasing Ewec s reverse osmosis desalination capacity.
Reverse osmosis is a membrane-based method of desalination that uses less energy compared with the thermal process used to produce fresh water.
Investments to develop 170 million gallons per day of new membrane-based desalination capacity will be needed to meet existing demand, according to the forecasts. Increased investment in RO projects means we can lead the region in decoupling water and electricity generation, using significantly less energy-intensive technology to produce water, reduce carbon emissions, and reduce costs, said Bruce Smith, forecasting and planning director at Ewec.
Ewec sees 50% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2025
ABU DHABI, 4 hours, 47 minutes ago UAE-based Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec) has forecasted a significant 50 percent reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a shift towards more sustainable water and electricity production by 2025. Ewec’s Statement of Future Capacity Requirements Summary Report for Abu Dhabi’s future water and electricity production also recommends a major investment programme in new reverse osmosis (RO) water desalination projects. The statement published by Ewec and approved by the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE), forecasts water and electricity demand for 2021-2027, and sets out the decision-making process regarding the future production capacity requirements for Abu Dhabi and beyond, with recommendations for planning decisions to be taken in the coming year. This is the first time the statement summary report has been made available publicly.
UAE: Tender Floated for One of the World s Largest Waste-to-Energy Power Plants Published January 25th, 2021 - 08:00 GMT
For the first stage of the tender process, EWEC and Tadweer invite developers to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to EWEC by the deadline of February 11, 2021. (Shutterstock)
The competitive tender process has commenced in Abu Dhabi for the development of a greenfield waste-to-energy (WtE) Independent Power Project (IPP), one of the largest in the region.
The tender is being floated by Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC), a leading company in the integrated coordination of planning, purchasing and supply of water and electricity across the UAE, and Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer), the competent authority for waste management activities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.