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DEWA awards US$35.27mn transformers contract

These transformers will increase the capacity, efficiency and reliability of the electricity distribution network in Dubai. (Image source: tburgey/sxc.hu)

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has awarded contracts to design, manufacture, test and supply 1,570 cast resin distribution transformers, with capacities of 11/0.4kV, and 1,000 and 1,500kVA equipped with low-voltage smart meters, to a number of leading specialist international institutions

As part of DEWA?s ongoing efforts to meet various requirements to expand the electricity distribution network, and provide its services reliably and efficiently to world-class standards, it has awarded contract worth approximately US$35.27mn.

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, DEWA CEO, said, ?DEWA has made great achievements in the efficiency, reliability, sustainability, and management of its optimal-investment infrastructure, as well as the operation of its networks. DEWA focuses on availability, reliability and efficiency in all its services, and is proactively developing and improving all its processes to achieve excellence in everything it does.

?These transformers will increase the capacity, efficiency and reliability of the electricity distribution network in Dubai, to ensure a continuous and stable supply of power to all stakeholders. All the transformers will be delivered by April 2018.?