Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates: National Central Cooling Company PJSC (‘Tabreed’), the leading Abu Dhabi-based district cooling utility company, today released its consolidated third quarter (Q3) 2013 financial results. New customer connections, improved operating efficiencies and lower finance costs continue to drive the company’s strong financial performance.
Financial highlights – nine months ended 30 September 2013:
Operational highlights – nine months ended 30 September 2013:
Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi, Tabreed’s Chairman, said: “Tabreed’s strategy to drive growth through our core chilled water business continues to deliver strong results. Looking ahead, we remain optimistic that chilled water demand will continue to increase across the region, and look forward to working closely with our clients to implement energy-efficient cooling solutions that enable our region’s sustainable development.”
Jasim Husain Thabet, Tabreed’s Chief Executive Officer, added: “The combination of revenue growth in our chilled water business and lower financing costs resulted in a strong improvement in profit for the period. The commencement of O&M support to the King Abdullah Financial District in Saudi Arabia was a major operational milestone. Today, we deliver approximately 830,000 RT of critical district cooling services in five countries throughout the GCC, making us the region’s preeminent district cooling provider.”
Tabreed currently has 66 plants across the GCC and provides its district cooling services to many of the region’s landmark projects including the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Dubai Metro, World Trade Center Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Yas Marina Circuit, the Pearl – Qatar, Bahrain Financial Harbour and the Jebal Omar Development Project in Mecca.