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Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) is building a new 50,000 Refrigeration Tonnesm (RT) unmanned district cooling plant in Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC).
Being built at a total cost of AED250 million, the project is part of company’s expansion plan of increasing the number of district cooling plants across Dubai, to serve major projects. This is also part of the company’s ongoing efforts to spread district cooling services in Dubai, and utilise artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The JVC plant is the world’s first unmanned and fully automated district cooling plant. It uses AI to monitor and automatically adjust inflow and outflow of the chilled water, as well as advanced SCADA system with the capacity to read 2 million data related to cooling towers, chillers, transformers, water supply etc. It also uses award-winning Treated Sew-age Effluent (TSE) and Thermal Energy Storage (TES) tec- hnologies to serve chilled wat-er. The plant’s operational efficiency will reach 0.89 KW/t, using 6 water chillers running on 11KV of electricity.