The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ( ) is a public

service infrastructure company that was founded on 1 January 1992 by Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid
Al Maktoum.[1] It arose from the merger of the Dubai Electricity Company and the Dubai Water
Department that had been operating independently until then. These organizations were established
in 1959 by sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, former ruler of Dubai.[1] The objective of the state-
run company is making available to the people of Dubai an adequate and reliable supply of
electricity and water.[2]
DEWA employs a workforce of over 9,000 employees and provides over 600,000 customers with
electricity and over 500,000 customers with water.[3]
In April 2015, DEWA had an installed capacity of 9,656 MW of electricity and 470 million imperial
gallons of desalinated water per day, with plans to increase this to over 10,000 MW of capacity by
2018.[4]
After using conventional gas-fired power plants for most of its history, DEWA has recently started to
add solar power to its energy mix. After installing an initial 13 MW (DC) solar plant at the Mohammed
bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in 2013,[5] a further 200 MW (AC) were contracted from developer
ACWA Power in January 2015.[6] The latest addition to DEWA's solar portfolio will be an 800 MW
solar power plant, which was in the fall of 2015 and should be completed by 2020.[7] DEWA plans a
250 MW pumped-storage hydroelectricityat Hatta using 880 million gallons of water 300 meter above
a lower dam.[