Is it possible to build a truly zero-carbon community?
A collective effort to create a sustainable city
11.11.2022
When you think of the Middle East and energy consumption, you could be forgiven for assuming that it’s all about oil and gas. Director of Future Energy Solutions for International Projects within Group Strategy, Torsten Hager and Heba Gebreel Georges, Future Application Catalyst know all about a collective effort to create a sustainable city that turns this assumption on its head.
Hager Group in the Middle East is one of the most important players in the Sharjah Sustainable City project; Sharjah is one of the seven Emirates which make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This sustainable city, once created, will consist of 1,120 villas fully supplied with renewable energy from the sun. It will be the first fully-integrated and net zero energy community in the Middle East. Clearly getting enough sunlight to produce PV energy is not an issue in the UAE.
However, for the Sustainable City of Sharjah a particular specification is that any surplus solar energy created cannot be fed back into the national grid. This constraint was part of the deal and the ambitious climate goals set by the Sharjah Investment and Development Agency (Shurooq). As the Sharjah Sustainable City must generate only to its requirements, storage solutions therefore need to be integrated. Diamond Developers, founded by a team of visionary entrepreneurs architects and engineers, are the pioneers of the world’s first sustainable community in Dubai – The Sustainable City. Boosted by the success of this first project, they were looking for partners for their next one – Sharjah Sustainable City.
To know more about Sharjah Sustainable City and who Heba and Torsten are, click here.
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