00:00Expansion of the M Station, the UAE's largest power generation and water desalination plant
00:07in Jebel Ali, has been completed to further boost the availability, reliability and efficiency
00:13of power and water in the emirate, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority announced on Monday.
00:18Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai and minister of finance, and
00:24Saeed Mohammed Al-Tayyir, managing director and CEO of Diwa and other officials inaugurated
00:30the 1.5 billion dirham expansion project, bringing the plant's total capacity to 2,885
00:37megawatts from 2,185 megawatts.
00:41The plant currently produces 140 million imperial gallons of water daily.
00:46The expansion is comprised of two dual fuel-gas turbine generators, each with a capacity of
00:52263.5 megawatts, two waste heat recovery boilers for steam generation and a back-pressure
00:59steam turbine from Siemens with a capacity of 173 megawatts.
01:04The expansion is designed to achieve a 90% fuel efficiency.
01:07Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai and minister of finance, and
01:08Saeed Mohammed Al-Tayyir, managing director and CEO of Diwa and other officials inaugurated
01:09the 1.5 billion dirham expansion project, bringing the plant to 2,885 megawatts from
01:102,185 megawatts.
01:11The expansion is designed to achieve a 90% fuel efficiency.
01:12We are working in line with our strategy, and I think it's very important that we should
01:13have a backup, because as you know, sometimes we have rain and the weather is cloudy.
01:20Therefore, we cannot operate the solar, except we can operate the CSP, I mean the concentrated
01:28power plant.
01:29Therefore, you should have a backup, and that's why I think this type of efficient gas turbine
01:37you will find is very efficient, because it's 90% fuel increase in the efficiency.
01:45And then you will have no interruption, and this will help you in case of emergency, actually.
01:50This means that, I will tell you, for the future, we are planning ahead.
01:55We are delivering on time.
01:58There are spare capacity of power and water in Dubai.
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