UAE
Four Sources Give a UAE Grid Emission Factor, on Four Different Bases
For 2025, EWEC puts the Abu Dhabi power intensity at 187.0 g/kWh, DEWA's grid emission factor for Dubai is 383.3 and Ember's…
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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi solar self-supply: no net metering since 5 February 2026
Abu Dhabi moved rooftop solar from energy netting to licensed self-supply in five documents between 2017 and 2026. The dated sequence shows…
Abu Dhabi
A Clean Energy Certificate is one megawatt-hour sold at quarterly auction
The scheme that lets a building in Abu Dhabi say its electricity came from a clean source runs on one page of…
UAE
Contracted capacity is a promise, connected load is what is metered today
One project card can carry three different capacity numbers for the same scheme, and they are not interchangeable. Put across three schemes,…
Abu Dhabi
909,000 m³/day is the largest RO plant, 2,019,000 is the whole complex
Two water figures sit side by side on the same page: 909,000 cubic metres a day and 2,019,000. The first belongs to…
Abu Dhabi
The EWEC pipeline is two lists of six, and the site never adds them
Two lists on one operator's site hold twelve projects between them, each with its own page and its own capacity figure. Put…
Abu Dhabi
The 2.5 GW Abu Dhabi solar PV capacity counts two plants, not four
A single sentence on one plant page carries the figure most often quoted for Abu Dhabi solar: around 2.5 GW (AC). It…
UAE
Carbon credits and the UAE free-zone 0% rate: what the 2025 rules actually changed
The exchange requirement is gone. What replaced it is a quoted-price test that a price reporting agency can satisfy — which is…
UAE
The UAE’s hydrogen strategy: what 1.4 million tonnes by 2031 actually means
Two numbers reframe the whole strategy. The 1.4 million tonnes everyone quotes is total low-carbon hydrogen — green is 1.0 of it.…
Dubai
On-site solar for a Dubai retail asset: what Shams Dubai actually allows
The roof is rarely the constraint. Shams Dubai caps installed capacity against your Total Connected Load, excludes ground mounts, and admits only…