Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) – Introduction and background |
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is Dubai’s exclusive provider of electricity and water utility services, supplying power and desalinated water to the emirate.
Founded on 1 January 1992 through the merger of the Dubai Electricity Company and the Dubai Water Department — organisations dating to 1959 — DEWA has scaled alongside Dubai’s extraordinary growth to become a utility of global scale. The group today operates over 14 GW of installed generation capacity, serves more than 800,000 customers, holds a 56% stake in Empower, the world’s largest district cooling provider, and advances Dubai’s clean energy ambitions through the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park — one of the world’s largest single-site solar projects.
DEWA listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) in 2022, in what was at that time the largest IPO in the DFM’s history.
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