Solar power plant in Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 24.87, 46.702.
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Kapsarc is a 4 MW solar power plant in Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research center. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,489 homes (estimated). It ranks #145 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 WRI1030728.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research center.
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 24.9°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 91% 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: 17/100 — 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 3.7% 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 #6 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 24.87, 46.702 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
