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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
Abu Dhabi solar farm
37th-largest power plant in United Arab Emirates of 62 · top 15% worldwide (#4,327 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Emirates Water and Electricity Company PJSC, Masdar Clean Energy
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 1,000 MW
- Fuel
- solar
- Commissioned
- 2027
Comparable power plants · United Arab Emirates · 62 ranked
- #1Barakah nuclear power plant5.7 GW · nuclear
- #35Jebel Ali D Power and Desalination Station1.0 GW · gas
- #36Dhafra Power Plant1.0 GW · gas
- #37Abu Dhabi solar farm1.0 GW · solar
- #38Jebel Ali K Power and Desalination Station948 MW · gas
- #39Fujairah F1 Integrated Water and power plant882 MW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Bahiya substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 6.8 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 14
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- 400 kV line4.6 km · Transmission Line
- Bahiya substation6.8 km · Substation / Converter
- Shahama substation8.1 km · Substation / Converter
- Shamkha substation11 km · Substation / Converter
- Equinix Abu Dhabi AD111 km · Data Centre
- Brooge Green Ammonia solar farm14 km · Power Plant · 650 MW · solar
- ESTIDAMA Gas Pipeline — Package 4 & 716 km · Pipeline
- Habshan-Maqta-Taweelah Gas Pipeline — Habshan–Maqta Gas Pipeline 122 km · Pipeline
- Habshan-Maqta-Taweelah Gas Pipeline — Habshan–Maqta Gas Pipeline 222 km · Pipeline
- Umm Al Nar West and East Integrated Water and power plant23 km · Power Plant · 1.7 GW · gas
- Umm Al Nar West and East Integrated Water and power plant23 km · Power Plant · 778 MW · gas
- Ras Al Sadr Gas Field (United Arab Emirates)23 km · Oil & Gas Field
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)