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Centrale Turbine a` Gaz de Tetouan

Oil power plant in Tanger-Tetouan, Morocco. Approximate location 35.5699, -5.4633.

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Centrale Turbine a` Gaz de Tetouan is a 139 MW oil power station in Tanger-Tetouan, Morocco. It is operated by Office National de l’Electricité (ONE). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 104,369 homes (estimated). It ranks #19 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1975, it is around 51 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, oil supplies about 3.6% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).

139MW installed capacity
104,369homes powered (est.)
1975commissioned (~51 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023688.

~273,969 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

63,862passenger cars driven for a year
35,729homes' yearly energy use
4,566,150tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 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 oil plants in Morocco

Central Termique de Kenitra: 300 MW300Central Te…Centrale Turbine a' Gaz de Tit-Me (Casablanca): 198 MW198Centrale T…Centrale Turbine a` Gaz de Tetouan: 139 MW139Centrale T…Centrale Diesel de Tantan: 117 MW117Centrale D…Dakhla IC Power Plant Western Sahara: 23 MW23Dakhla IC …

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

Owner

Operated by Office National de l’Electricité (ONE). All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. 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.

16.5°Cannual mean temp
1,153heating degree-days (base 18°C)
629cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
506 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 9 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 17 °CON: 14 °CND: 11 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 53% 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: 28/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3 largest oil power plant of 5 in Morocco by capacity.

Morocco has 5 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 777 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.5699, -5.4633 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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