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How district cooling evolved in the Middle East

By District Energy posted 08-12-2018 00:00

  

A.R. Suresh Kumar, MEP Middle East

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District cooling is no stranger to the Middle East market, reminds A.R. Suresh Kumar, general manager - corporate business development & projects, Voltas. He says: “District cooling has got a great history in the Middle East; it dates back to large cooling plants at remote locations in Mecca and Madina supplying to mosques. However, DCP (District Cooling Plants) in today’s context has come up in the early eighties. Probably, we can define DCP as a central chilling plant irrespective of capacity serving multiple clients in a limited geography.”

The UAE, however, is at the forefront of DC technology. Kumar says that local governments in the UAE have taken initiatives that have led to growth of large companies such as Tabreed and Empower. “While Tabreed led the way initially with a growing demand in Dubai, Empower has grown rapidly establishing itself as world’s largest district cooling company,” says Kumar.

The DCP market will have a moderate growth for the next couple of years in the UAE.  “We expect 20 to 24 plants of medium and large capacity to come up in the next 24 months [in the UAE]. You can expect rapid growth of DCPs in Saudi Arabia as that being a virgin market. While it is difficult to predict the numbers, it can vary from 30 to 40 plants. Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman combined may have a possibility of coming up with 10 plants.”

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