"Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, the government-owned utility in the Persian Gulf emirate, may seek financing to pay for a power-plant-expansion project, Chief Executive Officer Saeed Al Tayer said.
DEWA, as the company is known, plans to add two natural gas turbines to its M Station facility in a project that may start next year, Al Tayer said in an interview after a news conference yesterday. He didn’t say how much the project to add 400 megawatts of generation capacity would cost or when the utility might need the funds.
Dubai, the second-largest sheikdom in the United Arab Emirates, is boosting generating capacity to meet demand that’s rising about 5 percent a year and plans to develop new sources to lessen reliance on gas. The utility in February sold a $1 billion Islamic bond to repay debt and a month later Al Tayer said the company wouldn’t need external funds until 2015."
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