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Bir Rebaa

Solar power plant in Sha`biyat Nalut, Algeria. Approximate location 31.285, 8.565.

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Bir Rebaa is a 10 MW solar power plant in Sha`biyat Nalut, Algeria. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated). It ranks #53 of 59 Algeria power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 1.0% of Algeria's electricity; the national grid averages 633 gCO₂/kWh (1.1% low-carbon) (2024).

10MW installed capacity
4,254homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0072833.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Algeria

Hauts Plateaux Centre: 107 MW107Hauts Plat…Hauts Plateaux Est: 74 MW74Hauts Plat…El Kheneg: 60 MW60El KhenegAin el Ibel II: 53 MW53Ain el Ibe…Algerie Sud-Ouest: 44 MW44Algerie Su…HPC Ouargla: 30 MW30HPC OuarglaAdrar: 20 MW20AdrarAin Azel: 20 MW20Ain Azel

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.9°Cannual mean temp
453heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,620cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
209 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 19 °CMA: 23 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 33 °CJJ: 35 °CJA: 34 °CAS: 31 °CSO: 25 °CON: 18 °CND: 13 °CD35 °C

Heating degree-days here run 82% 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: 20/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 3.4% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #21 largest solar power plant of 27 in Algeria by capacity.

Algeria has 27 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 671 MW of capacity.

Location

Coordinates 31.285, 8.565 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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