Gas power plant in Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Approximate location 25.3527, 55.3705.
GasEmirate of SharjahUnited Arab EmiratesCCGT · HRSGMitsubishi Power: M701FCO₂ modelled
Layyah Power Station (LPS) is a 911 MW gas power station in Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by SEWA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.0 million homes (estimated). It ranks #27 of 60 United Arab Emirates power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1977, it is around 49 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 5,339,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 1.2 million 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 WRI1023584.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,572 MW for Layyah power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: C_REVIEW_MANUAL - recommended action: manual_review_only - confidence: unknown. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 911 MW, Layyah Power Station (LPS) is around the median gas plant in United Arab Emirates (969 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG); Mitsubishi Power: M701F. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SEWA.
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 25.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #24 largest gas power plant of 44 in United Arab Emirates by capacity.
United Arab Emirates has 44 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 57,334 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 25.3527, 55.3705 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Layyah Power Station (LPS) is a 911 MW source-record gas power plant in Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, commissioned in 1977.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,026,046 homes (estimated).
Layyah Power Station (LPS) is operated by SEWA.
Layyah Power Station (LPS) has modelled emissions of about 5,339,400 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
