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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
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Power Plant
Al Dhafra solar farm
15th-largest power plant in United Arab Emirates of 62 · top 5% worldwide (#1,321 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, Abu Dhabi Future Energy, Jinko Power Technology, EDF Renewables
- Owner
- Masdar Clean Energy, EDF Renewables, Jinko Power Technology Co Ltd, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 2,000 MW
- Fuel
- solar
- Commissioned
- 2022
Comparable power plants · United Arab Emirates · 62 ranked
- #1Barakah nuclear power plant5.7 GW · nuclear
- #13Taweelah B Power and Desalination Station2.3 GW · gas
- #14Fujairah F2 Integrated Water and power plant2.2 GW · gas
- #15Al Dhafra solar farm2.0 GW · solar
- #16Al Aweer H Power and Desalination Station2.0 GW · gas
- #17Layyah power station1.9 GW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Dhafra Solar PV
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 4.2 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 13
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 line2.7 km · Transmission Line
- Dhafra Solar PV4.2 km · Substation / Converter
- Stargate UAE Abu Dhabi5.3 km · Data Centre
- Stargate AI DataCenter7.0 km · Data Centre
- Dhafrah substation9.3 km · Substation / Converter
- Shanayel Oil and Gas Field (United Arab Emirates)10 km · Oil & Gas Field
- ESTIDAMA Gas Pipeline — Package 314 km · Pipeline
- Gulf Data Hub ICAD 214 km · Data Centre
- Dhafra Power Plant15 km · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · gas
- Industrial City of Abu Dhabi substation15 km · Substation / Converter
- Arabian Gulf Steel Industries Abu Dhabi plant16 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Abu Dhabi Cement Plant17 km · Cement Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)