Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Germany’s RWE Energy Group, to enhance cooperation in innovation, research and development in energy and smart grids, scientific research, and sustainable development.

This supports DEWA’s vision to become a sustainable innovative world class utility and its strategy to promote and establish innovation in all energy fields.

This deal is in line with Dewa’s Smart Dubai initiative, which aims to turn the UAE city into the smartest city in the world through implementation of smart technologies.

This deal will increase cooperation between the two parties and result in an exchange of experience, knowledge, and research in renewable energy, and technical, economic, and environmental analysis of alternative energy scenarios.

RWE Consulting CEO Dr Klaus Grellmann commented the news with these words :

“We intend to set an innovative role model in the region for the sustainable development and ease of connecting renewable energy sources with existing electricity grids. We are confident that DEWA’s excellent initiatives combined with RWE’s latest innovations and technologies will achieve this ambitious goal.”