DEWA signs OPSA contract with Siemens

Posted on June 6, 2017 · 1 min read

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a 12-year Operating Plant Service Agreement (OPSA) with German company Siemens, worth AED 1.7 billion. The contract includes providing maintenance, spare parts and gas turbine rehabilitation for the second phase of K-Station at Jebel Ali Power and Desalination Station, and the third phase of H-Station at the Al Aweer Power Station. As part of its efforts to implement best practices to achieve the highest levels of efficiency, reliability and service availability, and in support of its vision to become a sustainable innovative world-class utility, DEWA also extended the Long Term Maintenance Plan (LTMP), for seven more years, for the second phase of L-Station.

‘DEWA strives to introduce all the latest developments in technology and re-engineering processes in its operations. DEWA is consolidating its leading position, both nationally and globally, by providing electricity and water services to the highest international standards of reliability, efficiency, availability and safety,’ said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA. 

Al Tayer added that the contract contributes to efficiency and quality improvements, cost reduction, and the efficient operation of DEWA’s power plants. It also obliges Siemens will provide specialist personnel, and all the equipment and spare parts for the maintenance of these turbines and generators.

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