Dubai Maritime City, Etihad ESCO to enhance the energy efficiency

Dubai Maritime City, Etihad ESCO to enhance the energy efficiency

Top officials during the signing ceremony on Tuesday.



Etihad Energy Services Company (Etihad ESCO), an energy services company and a subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has signed an agreement to retrofit buildings at DP World, UAE Region's purpose-built maritime centre, Dubai Maritime City's (DMC) facilities. The agreement is part of the cooperation and strategic partnership between the two organisations in sustainability and energy efficiency.

The agreement includes installing modern air conditioning, lighting, and thermal insulation solutions in the facilities. Three cooling systems will be installed to optimise the performance of central coolers (Adiabatic Cooling System) with a central control unit.

The air exchange units control system will be modified by installing smart valves as well as replacing the triple valves with dual ones, replacing a number of air conditioning units with modern energy-saving units. Thermal insulation will be optimised by isolating a total of