Gas power plant in Ash Shariqah, United Arab Emirates. Approximate location 25.1495, 55.4261.
GasAsh ShariqahUnited Arab EmiratesCO₂ reported
Al Aweer H Power and Desalination Station is a 1,994 MW gas power station in Ash Shariqah, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority PJSC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,245,813 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 52 United Arab Emirates power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 5,791,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,349,953 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 68.3% of United Arab Emirates's electricity; the national grid averages 468 gCO₂/kWh (31.7% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6510.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority PJSC. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 25.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
A gas turbine here also runs ~9% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #6 largest gas power plant of 31 in United Arab Emirates by capacity.
United Arab Emirates has 31 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 33,202 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 25.1495, 55.4261 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
