Dubai has found the perfect way to put its 3500 plus hours of yearly sunshine to great use.

The city will soon be home to a solar-powered plant the size of 285 football fields, capable of supplying electricity to 800,000 homes by 2030.

This groundbreaking feat spearheaded by DEWA will make Dubai a world leader in terms of solar power generation by one single plant.

And we won’t have to wait 14 years for The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park to start powering many of our homes.

According to prestigious French magazine Paris Match, the plant will be supplying 200MW of electricity to 20,000 properties by 2017, 1000MW by 2020 and 5000MW by 2030. That final estimate equates to 12 times the power production of the biggest solar park currently in existence, the Ivanpah CSP facility in California (pictured below).

The arrival of green energy to Dubai brings two major benefits for the city’s residents. Firstly, there’s the drop in prices for the consumer, with DEWA bills expected to be two thirds cheaper than what Dubaians currently pay, Paris Match reported.

Secondly, there’s the improvement to the city’s carbon footprint, as the solar-powered project will reduce emissions by a whopping 6.5million tonnes every year.

Having first been announced at the start of the year, the update was bought to residents' attention as part of a DEWA campaign to alert people to the benefits of solar power.