Haditha Dam is a 660 MW hydro power station in Anbar, Iraq. It is operated by Iraq Ministry of Water Resources. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 660,754 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 28 Iraq power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1987, it is around 39 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 1.3% of Iraq's electricity; the national grid averages 683 gCO₂/kWh (1.6% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1008719.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Iraq Ministry of Water Resources. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.2°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 61% 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.
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 hydro power plant of 8 in Iraq by capacity.
Iraq has 8 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,574 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.207, 42.355 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
