Solar & battery storage · Dubai
Dubai homes and businesses are cutting electricity costs 25–100% with rooftop solar, starting from AED 0 upfront.
Tell us where the bill hurts. An engineer replies by email. No calls, no pressure.
Every roof in Dubai has the same choice. Take solar for free and pay less per unit, or buy the system and stop paying for daytime power altogether.
Path one: Free Solar
AED 0 upfront, under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
Honest trade-off: you don't own the system during the term; we do.
Path two: Buy Your System
4–6 yrs typical payback in Dubai, then 25+ years of output
Honest trade-off: capital outlay required on day one.
The proof
A few questions, an instant estimate of both routes side by side. Your numbers, not ours.
Why your bill climbs
DEWA charges homes in slabs. The more you use each month, the more every extra unit costs. Your last kWh in summer can cost 65% more than your first. Solar wipes out the most expensive units first.
Businesses face their own cliff: 23 fils/kWh up to 10,000 kWh a month, then 38 fils on everything above it, plus a fuel surcharge of about 6 fils on every unit for everyone. Verify current rates at dewa.gov.ae.
For homes
Your AC is writing DEWA's invoice. A right-sized rooftop system offsets up to 100% of consumption under Shams Dubai net metering; summer surplus is credited against your nights.
For business
Cut operating costs without touching capital budgets: a PPA moves energy off your balance sheet. Warehouse roofs become revenue. ESG reporting gets a number worth publishing.
Beyond panels
Net metering already banks your surplus, so why store it? Backup through outages, peak shaving that cuts commercial demand, and insurance against future tariff changes. Storage turns a good system into a resilient one.
How it works
Send the form. An engineer, not a salesperson, reviews your details and replies by email.
We survey your roof, model your consumption and design the system, with firm figures for both routes.
DEWA and Shams Dubai paperwork is ours to carry: design approval, inspection, bi-directional meter.
Installation, commissioning, and your first smaller bill. Free with a PPA, or owned outright.
Questions
Yes, free at the point of installation. Under a power purchase agreement (PPA) the provider pays for, installs, owns, insures and maintains the system on your roof. You pay AED 0 upfront and simply buy the electricity it produces at a rate below DEWA's, for a fixed term of typically 10 to 25 years. Your bill drops from day one.
The trade-off is that you do not own the system during the term; at the end of the term, ownership options apply. Full detail on the free solar (PPA) page.
Most Dubai villa, townhouse, warehouse and commercial roofs work. Flat roofs take panels on tilted frames; pitched roofs take flush-mounted panels. What matters is unshaded area, structural condition and access, all confirmed by a free site survey before anything is signed.
Rooftop solar in Dubai connects to the grid under DEWA's Shams Dubai initiative. An enrolled contractor prepares the design, submits it to DEWA for approval, installs the system, and DEWA inspects and fits a bi-directional meter. Surplus daytime generation is exported and credited against your consumption. That is net metering. We handle every step of the paperwork.
Under a PPA, the provider maintains and insures the system for the whole term; it is included in the rate. If you buy your system, panels typically carry 25-year warranties and need little more than periodic cleaning to keep dust from reducing yield; maintenance packages are available.
The roof of an apartment building belongs to the building, not the unit, so individual apartment installations need building-owner approval. Most apartment enquiries convert into building-wide projects arranged with the owners association. Send us your details and we will advise the practical options for your building.
If you have roof space and a meaningful DEWA bill, you are unlikely to be too small. Commercial systems scale from small offices and retail units to multi-megawatt warehouse roofs. Under a PPA there is no capital outlay at all, which makes solar viable even for smaller premises. The survey and estimate are free either way.
Sixty seconds of questions. A free survey. A smaller DEWA bill, from AED 0 upfront if you choose the PPA path.