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UAE Wind Program

A 103.5 MW onshore wind project at Sir Bani Yas, Delma, Al Sila, Al Halah, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Stage: Operating.

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The record

What the sources publish for this project

Capacity
103.5 MWEach site is below 50 MW; the programme is listed as one project because it was procured and inaugurated as one.
Technology
Onshore windFour sites: Sir Bani Yas Island 45 MW (with 14 MWp of solar), Delma Island 27 MW, Al Sila 27 MW, Al Halah (Fujairah) 4.5 MW
Stage counted on this site
OperatingAs published: “Inaugurated on 5 October 2023” (Masdar)
Inaugurated
5 October 2023
Owners and developers
Shares as the owners publish them; a company without a share has not published one
Country
United Arab Emirates
Location
Sir Bani Yas, Delma, Al Sila, Al Halah, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah, United Arab EmiratesLocality and region only; plant coordinates are not published

Sources

Where each figure comes from

PublisherPublicationPublishedRead onKind
MasdarOn behalf of the UAE President, Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed inaugurates UAE Wind Program5 October 202324 September 2026Procurer, developer or owner

Solar and wind resource

The resource at Abu Dhabi

NASA POWER's long-run means for the 0.5° cell that holds the locality: an area-level picture, not a site measurement.

6.10 kWh/m²/day

Global horizontal irradiance

About 2,227 kWh/m² a year

5.02 kWh/m²/day

Direct normal irradiance

5.1 m/s

Wind at 50 m

28.8 °C

Air temperature

Warmest month August, 37.3 °C

Aerosol optical depth: 0.45 · Dustiest month July

Global horizontal irradiance by month, kWh/m²/day
January: 4.46 kWh/m²/dayJanFebruary: 5.26 kWh/m²/dayFebMarch: 6.12 kWh/m²/dayMarApril: 6.84 kWh/m²/dayAprMay: 7.50 kWh/m²/dayMayJune: 7.64 kWh/m²/dayJunJuly: 7.12 kWh/m²/dayJulAugust: 6.96 kWh/m²/dayAugSeptember: 6.60 kWh/m²/daySepOctober: 5.80 kWh/m²/dayOctNovember: 4.76 kWh/m²/dayNovDecember: 4.20 kWh/m²/dayDec
January4.46
February5.26
March6.12
April6.84
May7.50
June7.64
July7.12
August6.96
September6.60
October5.80
November4.76
December4.20

Source: NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project, climatology 2001–2020, public domain; retrieved 2026-09-24. Cell N23.5E54.0, native resolution 1° (CERES SYN1deg). These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.

See it on the Energy AtlasResource as JSON

GCC Renewables Tracker, 24 September 2026 (2026-09)