POWER-GEN Middle East/WaterWorld Middle East 2015

Tayeb Taher Al Khaja
Vice President – Generation Plant-2
DEWA - Dubai Electricity & Water Authority, UAE


Engineer Tayeb Al Khaja is Vice President of Generation Plant-2 at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with more than 23 years of experience at different operational, maintenance and managerial positions and responsibilities. He is leading a group of 500 Operation and Maintenance personnel of high caliber responsible for the operation and maintenance of the largest Generation Plants in DEWA with a capacity of 5,400 MW electricity generation and 325 Million Gallon potable water production. He started his profession journey as Instrumentation and Control Engineer. He has vast experience in cogeneration and combined-cycle power plants consisting of Gas Turbines, Back Pressure and Condensing Steam Turbines, MSF/RO Desalination Plants and Boilers from leading OEMs. As an electronics engineer he also has vast experience in the OT field i.e. DCS and PLC systems from leading OEMs. He is also responsible for the Cybersecurity of Generating plants deploying Cyber security initiatives based on national and international regulations and standards. He has carried out extensive studies on Plant Design Improvement, Residual Life Assessment and Lifetime Extension, Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Common Mode Failures, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with the objective of cost effective plant Reliability and Availability improvement. Tayeb has led the team for developing corporate wide SMART POWER PLANT application using OSIsoft PI system to realize his vision of integrated intelligent information system across the authority.

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