EGA and GE sign MoU to implement 100 day emission reduction programme

Emirates Global Aluminium, EGA, and GE power signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with each other on a 100 day program to diminish EGA’s nitrogen oxide NOx discharge under the UAE government Accelerator programme.

Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EGA, and Joseph Anis, President and Chief Executive Officer, Power Services for the Middle East & Africa, GE Power, signed the MoU, in the presence of HE Dr. Thani Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment at the Government Accelerator headquarters in Emirates Towers in Dubai.
 

Both the companies are working in a partnership to achieve objectives in reducing NoX emission and increasing operational productivity at EGA’s power plants in Al Taweelah and Jebel Ali.

According to Kalban, “This MoU is an important step in meeting EGA’s ambitious goal under the Government Accelerators programme. With the advanced digital solutions that GE Power will introduce in our plants, we can contribute to improved air quality and help achieve a 100 per cent completion rate for the National Agenda goals.”

EGA’s objective is to minimize NOx discharge by 10% by the end of February. NOx is also released by cars and adds to bad air quality. This initiative can boost air quality by eliminating 280,000 vehicles and their discharge from the UAE’s roads.

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EGA’s power plant discharge NOx which generate electricity for use in aluminium smelting, an energy intensive industry.

GE’s next goal is to implement new liquid fuel changeover regime at both the plants to reduce fuel change over frequency while improvising fuel saving solutions.