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Saudi Electricity Co — power plant portfolio

Saudi Electricity Co operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 23,962 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 66,599,240 t CO₂/yr.

17power plants
23,962MW total capacity
1countries
66,599,240t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Oil: 6 plants6OilGas: 3 plants3Gas

Fleet interpretation

Saudi Electricity Co is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Saudi Arabia (17).

The fuel mix by asset count is oil (6), gas (3). The largest listed asset is Qurayyah Thermal power plant in Saudi Arabia (6,275 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 1,410 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 16 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 0 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 17 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Qurayyah Thermal power plantGasSaudi Arabia6,27520,764,000
Shuqaiq Steam Power PlantOilSaudi Arabia2,640
Al-Qassim power plantGasSaudi Arabia2,0274,860,700
Jeddah PP3 power plantOilSaudi Arabia1,9885,048,900
Riyadh City-14 power stationGasSaudi Arabia1,9804,660,400
Riyadh City-13 power stationGasSaudi Arabia1,8004,236,600
Faras power plantGasSaudi Arabia1,6105,305,200
Jizan Central power plantGasSaudi Arabia1,5564,604,900
Waad Al Shamal power stationGasSaudi Arabia1,1902,882,600
Hail-2 power plantOilSaudi Arabia1,0522,559,600
Riyadh 5 power plantOilSaudi Arabia6061,540,590
Tehama Central power stationGasSaudi Arabia5091,384,270
Rafha power plantGasSaudi Arabia286825,980
Altaaqa 4 Mobile power plantOilSaudi Arabia125317,550
Juba power plantGasSaudi Arabia117380,460
Altaaqa 2 Mobile power plantOilSaudi Arabia110279,440
Altaaqa 1 Mobile power plantOilSaudi Arabia95241,350

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Saudi Electricity Co operate?

Saudi Electricity Co operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with about 23,962 MW of total capacity.

What is Saudi Electricity Co's largest power plant?

Qurayyah Thermal power plant in Saudi Arabia is its largest at about 6,275 MW.

What types of power plants does Saudi Electricity Co run?

Its fleet is mostly oil (6), gas (3).

How much CO₂ do Saudi Electricity Co's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 66,599,240 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology