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Centrale a cycle combine de Tahaddart

Gas power plant in Tanger-Tetouan, Morocco. Approximate location 35.589, -5.9868.

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Centrale a cycle combine de Tahaddart is a 394 MW gas power station in Tanger-Tetouan, Morocco. It is operated by Energie Electrique de Tahaddart (EET). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 443,756 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2005, it is around 21 years old — relatively modern. In context, gas supplies about 10.9% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).

394MW installed capacity
443,756homes powered (est.)
2005commissioned (~21 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023677.

~621,259 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

144,816passenger cars driven for a year
81,020homes' yearly energy use
10,354,320tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Morocco

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

Owner

Operated by Energie Electrique de Tahaddart (EET).

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.3°Cannual mean temp
632heating degree-days (base 18°C)
753cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
37 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 15 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 20 °CON: 17 °CND: 14 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 74% 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: 22/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~2% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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 #3 largest gas power plant of 3 in Morocco by capacity.

Morocco has 3 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 1,666 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.589, -5.9868 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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