Abu Dhabi will soon be unveiling world’s fourth largest solar power generation farm – with a plant capacity of 2 GW located in Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra region.
Jasim Thabet, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company or TAQA, disclosed this recently. When online, the farm would be the fourth largest in the world by capacity after China’s Golmund Solar Park (2.8GW), and India’s Bhadla (2.25 GW) and Pavagada (2.05GW) Solar Parks.
“On the renewable energy front, in a couple of weeks, we [TAQA] will be inaugurating one of the world’s largest photovoltaic projects. When it is fully operational, the plant is going to help contribute to a reduction of 2.4 million tons of carbon emissions,” Thabet told delegates at energy conference ADIPEC 2023 being held in Abu Dhabi.
The farm is being built by TAQA in partnership with Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy market leader. France’s EDF Renewables and China’s JinkoPower are also consortium partners. The project was first announced in 2020.
He further claimed that the farm would be a best-in-class offering in terms of cost efficiencies since it is “one of the world’s most cost-efficient with a tariff rate of 1.32 cents / KWh.”
