Al Dhafra Solar in Abu Dhabi is the world's largest single-site solar plant, generating about 2 gigawatts from more than 4 million solar panels across one desert site.
Built by Masdar and EWEC, Al Dhafra shows the Gulf building generation at industrial scale on land that grows nothing else.
Two others in the Global South are in the same conversation: Benban Solar Park in Egypt (about 1,650 megawatts, built as roughly 32 separate plots near Aswan) and Adani's Khavda park in India (9.4 gigawatts operating across 538 square kilometres, heading toward a planned 30 gigawatts, which would make it the largest renewable park in the world).