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Jebel Ali "D"

Gas power plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Approximate location 25.0659, 55.1235.

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Jebel Ali "D" is a 1,027 MW gas power station in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by DEWA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,156,695 homes (estimated). It ranks #17 of 52 United Arab Emirates power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1979, it is around 47 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 11,484,100 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,676,946 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).

1,027MW installed capacity
1,156,695homes powered (est.)
11,484,100t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1979commissioned (~47 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1008732.

11,484,100 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,676,946passenger cars driven for a year
1,497,666homes' yearly energy use
191,401,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in United Arab Emirates

Shuweihat S1: 4,889 MW5kShuweihat …APC UAN: 2,430 MW2kAPC UANTAPCO: 2,200 MW2kTAPCOFAPCO (Fuj F2): 2,114 MW2kFAPCO (Fuj…Jebel Ali "M": 2,060 MW2kJebel Ali …Al Aweer H Power and Desalination Station: 1,994 MW2kAl Aweer H…New Mirfah (MIPCO): 1,728 MW2kNew Mirfah…Taweelah A1: 1,671 MW2kTaweelah A1

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by DEWA. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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.

27.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,526cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
50 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 23 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 31 °CMJ: 34 °CJJ: 35 °CJA: 35 °CAS: 33 °CSO: 29 °CON: 25 °CND: 20 °CD35 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #11 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.

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Location

Coordinates 25.0659, 55.1235 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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