Centrale Thermique de Jorf Lasfar (JLEC) is a 2,020 MW coal power station in Doukkala-Abda, Morocco. It is operated by Unit 1 and 2: Office National de l’Electricité (ONE); Unit 3 and 4: Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,527,885 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% 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 WRI1023682.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Unit 1 and 2: Office National de l’Electricité (ONE); Unit 3 and 4: Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA).
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.1°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 73% 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: 23/100 — 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 #1 largest coal power plant of 3 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 3 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 2,835 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 33.1041, -8.6378 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
