Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) organised a workshop for over 250 contractors and consultants to discuss the Al Namoos service on 17 February at Grand Hyatt hotel in Dubai.
The new service provides consultants and contractors electricity connections of up to 150 kilowatts (kW) within 10 days.
The government body has made significant efforts to upgrade its procedures for getting electricity. These procedures have been simplified from three to two steps, reducing the time to complete them from by 22 days. The first step now only takes 8 days, and includes the application for electricity connections through low-voltage cables, with the first monthly bill due after the electricity is connected.