EGA and ENEC top officials discuss UAE’s clean energy future

EGA and ENEC top officials discuss UAE’s clean energy future

DUBAI - Emirates Global Aluminium welcomed Mohamed Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), to the company’s Al Taweelah site in Abu Dhabi.

Al Hammadi and his delegation were welcomed to EGA by Chief Executive Officer Abdulnasser Bin Kalban and a team of executives. Discussions in the meeting centred on how the two companies will each contribute to the UAE’s clean energy future.

EGA has a strategic initiative with TAQA, Dubal Holding, and EWEC to divest its natural gas-fired power plants and instead source its electricity needs through the grid from EWEC, including an increasing proportion of clean energy. This would make EGA the largest single customer on the grid.

ENEC’s Barakah plant is already the largest source of clean, zero-carbon electricity in the UAE and the wider Arab World, with two of the four 1400 megawatt (MW) units already commercially operational, the third unit due to commence commercial operations shortly, and the fourth unit gearing up for operational readiness later this year.

Nuclear energy is an important source of baseload electricity, meaning it generates significant volume 24/7, which is fundamental to supporting the UAE’s growing intermittent renewable sources, which generate during daylight hours. Nuclear energy-generated