Power plants in United Arab EmiratesA directory of 60 power plants in United Arab Emirates with a combined installed capacity of 67,628 MW, mapped and ranked from open data — by fuel, capacity and emissions.
Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 26 United Arab Emirates power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 66.7 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, Taweelah A1 (gas), accounts for about 12% of that 26-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — SEWA, Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC, Gulf Total Tractebel Power Company ADWEA — control roughly 42% of that 26-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a arid Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barakah nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 5,668 |
| 2 | Shuweihat S1 | Gas | 4,889 |
| 3 | Emirates Aluminum Smelter Complex power station | Gas | 3,440 |
| 4 | Al-Nouf Power Plant | Gas | 3,300 |
| 5 | Emirates Global Aluminum Smelter power station | Gas | 2,718 |
| 6 | Taweelah C Independent Power Producer (IPP) | Gas | 2,500 |
| 7 | APC UAN | Gas | 2,430 |
| 8 | Hassyan Clean-Coal Power Project | Gas | 2,400 |
| 9 | Fujairah F3 Integrated Water and power plant | Gas | 2,400 |
| 10 | Al Nakheel power station | Gas | 2,353 |
| 11 | TAPCO | Gas | 2,200 |
| 12 | FAPCO (Fuj F2) | Gas | 2,166 |
| 13 | Jebel Ali "M" | Gas | 2,060 |
| 14 | Al Aweer H Power and Desalination Station | Gas | 1,996 |
| 15 | Ras al-Khaimah power station | Coal | 1,800 |
| 16 | New Mirfah (MIPCO) | Gas | 1,728 |
| 17 | Taweelah A1 | Gas | 1,672 |
| 18 | Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project | Gas | 1,523 |
| 19 | Madinat Zayed Independent Power Producer (IPP) | Gas | 1,500 |
| 20 | Jebel Ali "L" - Ph ll | Gas | 1,393 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — United Arab Emirates. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/united-arab-emirates/
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There are 60 power plants in United Arab Emirates in this open dataset, with about 67,628 MW of total capacity.
Barakah nuclear power plant is the largest at about 5,668 MW (nuclear).
The most common plant type in this dataset is gas (44 plants), across 6 fuel types in total.
United Arab Emirates's grid carbon intensity is about 468 gCO₂/kWh, with 31.7% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
