Dubai’s RTA sees 18% drop in energy consumption across its operations

Dubai’s RTA sees 18% drop in energy consumption across its operations

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that it achieved its targeted energy efficiency performance indicators 2021 and reduced total energy consumption in all operations and projects by 18 per cent, compared with the average consumption from 2016 to 2019.

It also reduced total emissions by 13 per cent and energy costs by 10 per cent during the same period.

HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director General-Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of #RTA announced that RTA had achieved the targeted energy efficiency performance indicators 2021 and reduced total energy consumption in all operations and projects by 18%.https://t.co/6pqh6VIL3f pic.twitter.com/adNUov6le1 — RTA (@rta_dubai) August 21, 2022

“Sustainability is a key pillar of RTA’s strategic goals and objectives, and the concept of sustainability has become deeply rooted in RTA’s corporate performance. Protecting the environment, optimising the use of energy, reducing carbon emissions, and ensuring assets sustainability have become priorities. RTA has a well-defined roadmap that aims to achieve zero-emission from public transport in Dubai by 2050. In the process, RTA is becoming the first government entity in the Middle East and North Africa to develop an integrated roadmap targeting public transport and its infrastructure,” said Mattar Al Tayer, director general, chairman of the Board of