Solar power plant in Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Approximate location 24.7652, 55.3733.
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Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase 1 is a 10 MW solar power plant in Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by DEWA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.3k homes (estimated). It ranks #60 of 60 United Arab Emirates power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2013, it is around 13 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 8.6% 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 WRI1023588.
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 3,463 MW for Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Par, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: B_SCOPE_PARENT_COMPLEX - recommended action: build_parent_complex_model - confidence: not_comparable_without_scope. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000804032); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 10 MW, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase 1 is below the median solar plant in United Arab Emirates (200 MW). Solar PV converts sunlight directly into electricity with no moving parts or fuel; output varies by time of day and weather, so it pairs with storage or flexible backup.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by DEWA. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 24.8°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.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 3.6% at warm-season highs here (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 #6 largest solar power plant of 6 in United Arab Emirates by capacity.
United Arab Emirates has 6 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 840 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 24.7652, 55.3733 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase 1 is a 10 MW source-record solar power plant in Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, commissioned in 2013.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated).
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase 1 is operated by DEWA.
