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Asset classes
- 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
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Shams Dubai solar farm
52nd-largest power plant in United Arab Emirates of 62 · top 44% worldwide (#12,992 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
- Owner
- Dubai Electricity and Water Authority PJSC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 299 MW
- Fuel
- solar
- Commissioned
- 2021
Comparable power plants · United Arab Emirates · 62 ranked
- #1Barakah nuclear power plant5.7 GW · nuclear
- #50Al Nakheel power station387 MW · gas
- #51Zirku ADMA-OPCO power station330 MW · gas
- #52Shams Dubai solar farm299 MW · solar
- #53Al Hattawi Dam hydroelectric plant250 MW · hydro
- #54Ruwais General Utilities Plant230 MW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Barsha
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 6.4 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 12
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 line4.1 km · Transmission Line
- Barsha6.4 km · Substation / Converter
- Najma 400/132Kv Substation7.6 km · Substation / Converter
- Racecourse 400/132kV Substation7.8 km · Substation / Converter
- datamena DXA Datacenter8.7 km · Data Centre
- Equinix Dubai DX18.7 km · Data Centre
- National Cement Dubai Plant9.6 km · Cement Plant
- Emirates Global Aluminum Smelter power station11 km · Power Plant · 3.0 GW · gas
- Jebel Ali D Power and Desalination Station13 km · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · gas
- Margham–Jebel Ali gas Pipeline14 km · Pipeline
- Jebel Ali E Power and Desalination Station14 km · Power Plant · 616 MW · gas
- Dubai / Oman Crude14 km · Oil / Commodity Contract
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)