Solar power plant in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 26.33, 50.108.
SolarEastern ProvinceSaudi Arabia
Dhahran is a 10 MW solar power plant in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Saudi Aramco. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,467 homes (estimated). It ranks #143 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2012, it is around 14 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 1.8% of Saudi Arabia's electricity; the national grid averages 692 gCO₂/kWh (2.2% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1030727.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Saudi Aramco. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.3°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 97% 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: 15/100 — 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 3.5% 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 #4 largest solar power plant of 6 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.
Saudi Arabia has 6 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 137 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 26.33, 50.108 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
