Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

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GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

As a government university, both UAEU and our facilities management partner, Khadamat follow the Abu Dhabi government policy that has defined energy-efficient standards all new buildings and renovations of existing buildings. The Emirate has mandated a new building design methodology called Estidama for constructing and operating buildings and communities more sustainably including energy-efficiency.

Researchers from UAEU developed a model of Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Stations in Al Ain City and developed methods to help design and manage a coordinated fast charging Stations planning model that enhances the user experience for Electric vehicle owners. Ultimately, the project is beneficial for sustaining the fast-growing demands for Electric vehicles in UAE and helps to prepare a plan to locate and size the Charging Stations that benefit all stakeholders.

Concrete steps towards becoming a cleaner, more energy-efficient university include replacing all lamps with energy-efficient dimmable LEDs instead of traditional bulbs. We have also limited the amount of energy used by air conditioning machines by linking them to timers and setting the target temperature centrally. We now use solar energy for heating water and are building a cycle track and a cycle park to encourage greener transportation.

UAEU central data centre is completely designed to be more energy efficient with minimum stress on environment. Power and cooling infrastructure is based on most sophisticatedly chosen green certified hardware. Current data centres, which are hosted in “College of IT” building, have “InRow Cooling” technology that eliminates the use of heavy-duty HVAC units. InRow cooling units draws only 25% of the energy-required compared to other solutions.

UAEU has implemented an energy monitoring system in 42 buildings on campus and since 2014, the university has saved nearly 57,362MWH of energy – enough to power the entire UAEU for 223 operational days.

UAEU has progressively saved electric energy consumption over the past 5 years thereby reducing carbon emission.

UAEU researcher developed a new renewable energy index. It has the potential to be used in economic analyses and planning for sustainable development. The Index may be useful in comparing countries and regions in order to encourage investment in renewable energy production.

UAEU hosted International Conference on Renewable Energy Generation and Applications ICREG’21 discusses green energy technologies and sustainable “zero energy” systems.