Ain Beni Mathar Centrale Thermosolaire (CCGT) is a 472 MW gas power station in Oriental, Morocco. It ranks #9 of 52 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 10.9% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023670.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 472 MW, Ain Beni Mathar Centrale Thermosolaire (CCGT) is below the median gas plant in Morocco (1,200 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #5 largest gas power plant of 6 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 6 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 5,672 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.0705, -2.1049 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Ain Beni Mathar Centrale Thermosolaire (CCGT) is a 472 MW gas power plant in Oriental, Morocco, Announced 2009.
