Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced on Sunday that the fourth phase of its H-Station power plant in Al Aweer will start operations in the first quarter of 2023.

The DFM-listed utility said in a press statement that testing and commissioning operations of the 829-megawatt Phase 4 started in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The [gas-fuelled, open cycle, peak load power plant] project, which is being built at a total investment of 1.1 billion UAE dirhams ($299.5 million), has achieved 93 percent completion rate, according to the press statement.

Phase 4 will increase the H Station’s total power generation capacity to 2,825 MW under climate conditions of up to 50 degrees Celsius and 30 percent relative humidity, the statement said. 

consortium of Germany’s Siemens Energy and Egypt’s Elsewedy Power was awarded the project in February 2018.

DEWA's current installed power generation capacity stands at 14,317 MW.

Phase 4 consists of three Siemens F-class gas turbines [SGT5-4000F], three generators [SGen5-1200A] and the control system [SPPA-T3000]. according to a June 2018 press statement by Siemens.

(Writing by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)