Dubai’s DEWA bags Guinness record for largest single-site natural gas power facility

Dubai’s DEWA bags Guinness record for largest single-site natural gas power facility

The Jebel Ali Power Generation and Water Production Complex of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the largest single-site natural gas power generation facility in the world.

The complex can generate 9,547 MW of electricity. The total assets of the power production and water desalination plants in the Jebel Ali complex are now valued at over Dhs45bn.

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, said that Dubai recorded the world's lowest Customer Minutes Lost (CML) of 1.66 minutes per year; the lowest electricity transmission- and distribution-network-line losses of 3.3 per cent, and one of the lowest water-network losses of 5.1 per cent.

Fuel Heat Utilisation in DEWA's power plants reached 90 per cent. The UAE has maintained its first global ranking for the third consecutive year, with scores of 100 per cent in all Getting Electricity indicators in the World Bank's Doing Business 2020 report. The report measures the ease of doing business in 190 economies around the world.

.@DEWAOfficial achieves Guinness World Records title of largest single-site natural gas power facility in the world, located at Jebel Ali Power Plant and Water Desalination Complex with an electricity generation capacity of 9,547