MBR Solar Park Phase 6:
Integrating ESG Reporting with Operational Performance

Executive Summary

DEWA has committed to delivering 100 percent of Dubai's power from clean energy sources by 2050, with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park as the central delivery mechanism. Phase 6 is the most recent expansion, adding utility-scale PV capacity to a complex that is already the largest single-site solar installation in the region. The analytical question this document addresses is not whether the park generates clean electricity. That is well documented. The question is how the operational performance data already collected by DEWA can be reframed, with minimal additional instrumentation, into TCFD and GRI-aligned ESG disclosures that investors, regulators, and rating agencies will increasingly require.

Three findings emerge:

1. Operational engineering data is already ESG-grade at source. Performance ratio, specific yield, availability, and curtailment logs for each Phase can be mapped one-to-one onto TCFD metrics and GRI 302 (Energy) and GRI 305 (Emissions) indicators with translation, not new instrumentation.
2. The reporting gap is structural, not data-driven. DEWA's operational systems and sustainability reporting teams use different metric dictionaries. Establishing a shared ESG data model that pulls from SCADA, PPA settlement, and plant management systems would collapse the annual reporting cycle from months to weeks and improve audit readiness.
3. Phase 6 is the right pilot. As the newest phase, its instrumentation is most complete, its commercial terms are most current, and its inclusion in forward-looking investor communications is the most material. A Phase 6 ESG data pilot can template the full park and, ultimately, the generation business.

Current State: What DEWA Discloses

DEWA's sustainability reporting is among the most mature in the GCC utility sector. The 2024 Sustainability Report covers GRI Universal and Sector Standards, includes TCFD-aligned climate risk commentary, and publishes both absolute and intensity emissions metrics for the generation and water desalination businesses. Solar Park capacity and clean energy share are tracked publicly. The gap addressed in this analysis is not at the disclosure layer but at the data pipeline layer between plant operations and published metrics.

Strengths

• Board-level clean energy commitment (100 percent by 2050) and sustained delivery through successive Solar Park phases
• GRI and TCFD-aligned public reporting with year-on-year consistency
• Mature SCADA, performance monitoring, and plant management systems at each phase
• Integration with Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and UAE Net Zero 2050 Strategy

Gaps

• Operational data is captured at engineering granularity but published at aggregated annual cadence only
• Avoided emissions calculations rely on grid-average factors rather than marginal displacement where material
• Phase-level performance data not consistently surfaced in investor and rating agency communications
• Scope 3 Category 11 (use of sold electricity) not yet reported at tariff-segment level

Phase 6: Asset-Level Lens

MBR Solar Park Phase 6 is the most recently commissioned phase and is instrumented with current-generation monitoring. Every string, inverter, and transformer produces time-series data that feeds the plant management system. This data is already used by operations teams to manage performance ratio, soiling losses, and availability. The same underlying telemetry, recombined, produces the metrics most relevant to sustainability reporting: clean electricity delivered, avoided emissions, water use intensity, land use intensity, and workforce health-and-safety per megawatt-hour generated. The translation work is metric mapping, not new sensing.

Operational to ESG Translation: Five Priority Metric Mappings

Five mappings emerge from the analysis. Each converts an existing operational KPI into a reporting-ready ESG metric. Implementation effort ratings assume DEWA's existing SCADA, PPA settlement, and plant management data are accessible to a joint operations-and-sustainability data team.

Alignment with UAE Federal Climate Law

Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024 on the Reduction of Climate Change Effects enters its first compliance cycle on May 30, 2026. All UAE entities must measure and report Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, with fines ranging from AED 50,000 to AED 2 million. For DEWA, compliance is a formality given existing reporting maturity. The strategic value of the 2026 cycle is to formalize the generation-side operational data pipeline into a repeatable compliance workflow, which has three downstream uses:

• Feed National Carbon Credit System registration with phase-level avoided emissions verified against published methodologies
• Provide audit-ready evidence for DEWA's sustainability-linked financing and green sukuk frameworks
• Prepare the data architecture for anticipated investor demand for TNFD and ISSB-aligned disclosures

Recommended Next 90 Days

1. Days 1-30: Complete UAE Federal Climate Law submission. Convene a joint operations and sustainability reporting working group focused on Phase 6 as the pilot scope.
2. Days 31-60: Publish a Phase 6 metric dictionary that maps each operational KPI to a GRI, TCFD, or ISSB-aligned indicator. Stand up monthly automated extraction from SCADA and plant management systems.
3. Days 61-90: Issue a Phase 6 ESG data sheet as a supplement to the 2025 Sustainability Report, and commit to expanding the model to Phases 1 to 5 during 2027. Position the pipeline as the foundation for the next sustainability-linked financing round.

Methodology and Data Sources

This analysis is built entirely on publicly disclosed information. Specific sources include:

• DEWA 2024 Sustainability Report and Annual Report
• DEWA Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 public announcements
• Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase 6 tender and commissioning disclosures
• UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024 on the Reduction of Climate Change Effects
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Universal Standards and Topic Standards 302, 303, 304, 305, 403
• TCFD Recommendations on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
• IFRS ISSB S1 and S2 sustainability disclosure standards
• IEC 61724 series on photovoltaic system performance monitoring
• GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard; Project Protocol for grid-connected electricity

Numerical estimates and descriptions of operational data throughout this document are directional and based on public information combined with standard photovoltaic engineering practice at sites of comparable scale. A production engagement would refine these with direct access to SCADA feeds, PPA settlement data, and plant management system outputs.