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HASSAN 1ER

Hydro power plant in Tadla-Azilal, Morocco. Approximate location 31.846, -7.0783.

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HASSAN 1ER is a 67 MW hydro power plant in Tadla-Azilal, Morocco. It is operated by Office National de l’Electricité (ONE). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 67,076 homes (estimated). It ranks #26 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1991, it is around 35 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 2.0% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).

67MW installed capacity
67,076homes powered (est.)
1991commissioned (~35 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023693.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Morocco

STEP UR1 *: 464 MW464STEP UR1 *Al wahda: 240 MW240Al wahdaAllal Al Fassi: 240 MW240Allal Al F…BINE EL OUIDANE: 135 MW135BINE EL OU…ALMASSIRA: 128 MW128ALMASSIRAA. EL HANSALI: 92 MW92A. EL HANS…AFOURER: 92 MW92AFOURERHASSAN 1ER: 67 MW67HASSAN 1ER

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 hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.2°Cannual mean temp
1,356heating degree-days (base 18°C)
709cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,104 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 8 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 45% 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: 31/100 — 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 #8 largest hydro power plant of 18 in Morocco by capacity.

Morocco has 18 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,676 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.846, -7.0783 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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