Every Last Joule · Region record

UAE

Provenance, tier, and validation record for uae. No live curtailment figures on this page — those are on the globe.

Region id: uae
Country: ARE
Waste modality: Solar
Coordinates: 24.50° N, 54.40° E

Estimated Data quality

Tier

estimated · T3-modelled

No live feed and no published total for this region. A typical-shape profile is scaled to a capacity-based or literature anchor.

Modelled profile, scaled to annual (±40%)

Uncertainty

±40% of peak GW

Published envelope for this tier. See the uncertainty model.

Source provenance

modelled-fallback · No verified upstream link

There is no verified upstream link. The snapshot is a typical-shape profile scaled to an anchor, or otherwise estimated.

Source

DEWA/EWEC fallback

https://www.dewa.gov.ae/

Tier, provenance, and source are read at build time from src/lib/regions.ts — the same table the globe draws from. The validation record below is generated separately and gated against it by npm run ci:docs-drift.

Validation record

Last updated: 2026-08-20 · Sprint: S1 + HB integration · Paper section: Technical Validation §4.2

Source

Region id: uae
Country: ARE
Tier: estimated
Kind: solar
Source: DEWA/EWEC fallback
Source URL: https://www.dewa.gov.ae/
Loader: uae.json.ts
Structural gap: no

Calibration

Rate source documented in: docs/methodology/ (see links below)
Uniform across backfill years: n/a — no backfill

Multi-year backfill annual totals

Year	Backfill rows	Backfill annual TWh	Published TSO annual TWh	Δ %	Source
(no backfill or TSO anchors yet — will be populated after HB fan-out completes)

Published anchors

TSO annual curtailment (latest published): DEWA/EWEC 2024 PV curtailment low
Ember annual: —
IRENA annual: —
Other: —

Discrepancy analysis

No backfill and no TSO anchor. Region relies solely on the live snapshot; nothing to triangulate against.

Known limitations

No public hourly archive. DEWA (dewa.gov.ae) and EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) publish annual capacity and generation figures but no hourly PV curtailment — UAE's vertically integrated single-buyer model does not produce a public dispatch-down series comparable to ENTSO-E or AEMO. The loader emits a typical solar shape (peak UTC 8, reflecting the late-morning Gulf Standard Time peak) scaled to a 0.2 TWh/yr anchor reflecting Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park and Al Dhafra clipping during midday over-supply windows. T3-modelled, ±40% envelope; cross-listed in docs/known-limitations.md Item 14 as part of the Middle-East coverage-first fallback group (Jordan, Saudi solar, UAE, Oman, Israel) where private-grid data restrictions preclude live integration. Anchor revision welcome if EWEC publishes 2025 PV dispatch series.