5.41 PM Tuesday, 17 February 2015
There’s good news for Dubai residents waiting to generate their own solar power and even sell it to the emirate’s utility body if they manage to generate a surplus.
For the uninitiated, Dubai is getting ready to join a small but growing number of global cities whose residents are empowered to not only generate solar power for their own consumption, but can also sell the electricity to state distribution companies for other people on the grid.
The groundwork for this was laid last year when a government resolution was issued, allowing residents to install solar panels on the rooftops of their homes and buildings in order to generate electricity from solar power, and connect them to the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (Dewa) grid.
According to Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dewa, “an offset between exported and imported electricity units is conducted and the customer account is settled based on this offset.”
In other words, customers who consume more and produce less will need to pay Dewa for the utility’s electricity units they consume whereas those that produce more power than they consume will have their accounts credited with positive units.
For the uninitiated, Dubai is getting ready to join a small but growing number of global cities whose residents are empowered to not only generate solar power for their own consumption, but can also sell the electricity to state distribution companies for other people on the grid.
The groundwork for this was laid last year when a government resolution was issued, allowing residents to install solar panels on the rooftops of their homes and buildings in order to generate electricity from solar power, and connect them to the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (Dewa) grid.
According to Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dewa, “an offset between exported and imported electricity units is conducted and the customer account is settled based on this offset.”
In other words, customers who consume more and produce less will need to pay Dewa for the utility’s electricity units they consume whereas those that produce more power than they consume will have their accounts credited with positive units.
No comments:
Post a Comment