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. 

A 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)