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Jizan IGCC power plant

Gas power plant in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 17.2775, 42.3626.

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Jizan IGCC power plant is a 3,850 MW gas power station in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,336,200 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 9,061,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,112,284 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 63.3% of Saudi Arabia's electricity; the national grid averages 692 gCO₂/kWh (2.2% low-carbon) (2024).

3,850MW installed capacity
4,336,200homes powered (est.)
9,061,700t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6407.

9,061,700 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,112,284passenger cars driven for a year
1,181,755homes' yearly energy use
151,028,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Saudi Arabia

GHAZLAN: 4,256 MW4kGHAZLANHajr for Electricity Production Co. Station: 4,098 MW4kHajr for E…Jizan IGCC power plant: 3,850 MW4kJizan IGCC…QURAYYAH- CC: 3,846 MW4kQURAYYAH- …MARAFIQ IWPP (1): 2,941 MW3kMARAFIQ IW…QURAYYAH -STEAM: 2,500 MW2kQURAYYAH -…Riyadh 8: 2,072 MW2kRiyadh 8Riyadh 12: 2,056 MW2kRiyadh 12

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

Owner

Operated by Air Products and Chemicals Inc.

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 17.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.7°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,200cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
18 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 30 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 31 °CJA: 31 °CAS: 30 °CSO: 27 °CON: 24 °CND: 22 °CD31 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~8% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3 largest gas power plant of 50 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.

Saudi Arabia has 50 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 49,351 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 17.2775, 42.3626 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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