Al wahda is a 240 MW hydro power station in Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen, Morocco. It is operated by Office National de l\'Electricite (ONE). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 240,274 homes (estimated). It ranks #10 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 2.0% 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 WRI1023672.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Office National de l\'Electricite (ONE). All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 67% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 24/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #2 largest hydro power plant of 18 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 18 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,676 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.5983, -5.199 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
