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250MW power plant is scheduled for completion in Q1 2025
Dubai’s pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant in Hatta is 74 percent complete, the project’s owner Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced on Tuesday.
DEWA said in a press statement that the 250 megawatts (MW) power project, the first of its kind in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, is being developed at a total investment of 1.421 billion UAE dirhams.
The power project, which includes storage capacity of 1,500 megawatt-hours (MWh), is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2025.
Project updates, according to the statement, include:
• Assembly of power generators underway
• Upper dam’s water upper intake structure and the associated bridge complete
• Construction of the 72-metre main Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) wall of the upper dam complete
• Preliminary measures to fill the upper dam to commence by end of the year
• 1.2-kilometre water tunnel in the process of being linked to the power generators |
