UAE Business: Abu Dhabi’s building retrofit programme to help cut power consumption – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Abu Dhabi’s building retrofit programme to help cut power consumption – Gulf Digital News

Abu Dhabi’s building retrofit programme, aimed at improving electricity and water efficiency of the existing buildings across the emirate, will help save up to 40% of power consumption in some buildings, reported state news agency Wam, citing a senior executive of Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa).

The Building Retrofit Programme is one of the nine programmes under the Abu Dhabi Demand Side Management and Energy Rationalisation Strategy 2030 to reduce overall electricity consumption by 22% and water consumption by 32% in the emirate by 2030.

"In some of the projects we are working on right now, we believe that after we finish our retrofitting programme, we can save 20 to 40 percent of electricity consumption, and around 10 percent water consumption in some of the buildings. It's a win-win to the owner of these buildings and to us," said Omar Abdulla Alhashmi, Executive Director of Transmission and Distribution at Taqa during an interview held on the sidelines of the World Utilities Congress 2022.

Hosted by Taqa, the global exhibition has brought together more than 10,000 global utility professionals, 200 speakers, over 1,000 representatives of participating parties from across the globe.

Alhashmi said Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES), a subsidiary company established by Taqa