Centrale Solaire Noor Ouarzazate 1 is a 160 MW solar power station in Souss-Massa-Draa, Morocco. It is operated by Moroccan Agency for Renewable Energies (MASEN). Based on reported annual generation of 370 GWh, it can supply roughly 105,714 homes. It ranks #15 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 5.8% 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 WRI1023680.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Moroccan Agency for Renewable Energies (MASEN).
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.0°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 59% 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: 26/100 — 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 1.6% 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.
The #2 largest solar power plant of 5 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 5 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 533 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 31.0404, -6.8449 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
