Sources & References
This page lists the official regulators, utility operators and government sources that EnergyPoint Holdings relies on for its UAE energy reporting, and explains why each carries authority. It is a companion to our Editorial & Fact-Check Policy: where that page describes our verification process, this page names the primary sources that process is built on.
National government and statistics
u.ae — UAE Government Portal
The federal government’s official portal is the primary reference for national strategy documents — such as the National Hydrogen Strategy and Net Zero 2050 — and for ministerial decisions, including tax and free-zone regulation. It is authoritative because it is the government’s own first-party publication channel, not a secondary summary of one.
WAM — Emirates News Agency
WAM is the UAE’s official state news agency. We use it to confirm dates, official appointments, and the wording of government announcements, because it is the standard first-party record of state communications in the UAE.
Power generation and grid
EWEC — Emirates Water and Electricity Company
EWEC is the entity responsible for electricity and water procurement planning in Abu Dhabi, including off-take agreements for major generation and storage projects. As the counterparty to these agreements, EWEC’s disclosures are a direct primary source for Abu Dhabi generation capacity data.
Masdar
Masdar is Abu Dhabi’s flagship renewable energy company and a developer or co-developer of the UAE’s largest utility-scale solar, storage and hydrogen projects. Its project announcements are treated as primary source data for capacity, timeline and partnership details on the projects it develops.
ENEC / Nawah — Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation
ENEC and its operating subsidiary Nawah are the license holders and operators of the Barakah nuclear plant. Their disclosures are the primary source for Barakah’s operational status, unit commissioning and output figures.
ADNOC
ADNOC is Abu Dhabi’s national oil company and, through joint ventures such as E2GO, an operator in EV charging and a participant in hydrogen and carbon-related initiatives. We treat ADNOC’s own disclosures as the primary source for its network expansion and target figures.
Dubai utilities and building compliance
DEWA — Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
DEWA is Dubai’s electricity and water utility and the regulator of the Shams Dubai net-metering programme and the EV Green Charger network. As both operator and regulator for these programmes, DEWA is the first-party source for Dubai tariffs, net-metering terms and charger-network statistics.
Dubai Municipality — Al Sa’fat
Dubai Municipality administers the Al Sa’fat green-building rating system. It is the authoritative source for current compliance requirements and rating-tier updates for new construction in Dubai.
Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport — Estidama
This department administers the Estidama Pearl Rating System, the mandatory sustainability framework for buildings in Abu Dhabi. It is the authoritative source for Pearl Rating requirements and permit-linked compliance thresholds.
District cooling operators
Empower and Tabreed
Empower (Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation) and Tabreed (National Central Cooling Company) are the two dominant district-cooling operators in Dubai and Abu Dhabi respectively. As listed or investor-reporting entities, their financial disclosures and published tariff structures are the primary source for district-cooling market and pricing data.
How we use these sources
We prioritise first-party disclosures — regulator filings, operator press releases, government portals and investor reports — over secondary press summaries. Where a figure is only available through press coverage, we attribute it to the outlet that reported it rather than presenting it as directly confirmed by the underlying authority. See our Editorial & Fact-Check Policy for the full verification methodology, and our Disclaimer for how to treat figures on regulated topics.