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MARAFIQ Independent Water and power plant

Other power plant in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 27.0704, 49.6078.

OtherEastern ProvinceSaudi ArabiaCO₂ reported

MARAFIQ Independent Water and power plant is a 2,740 MW other power station in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Jubail Water and Power Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,057,348 homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 6,646,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,549,347 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 692 gCO₂/kWh (2.2% low-carbon) (2024).

2,740MW installed capacity
2,057,348homes powered (est.)
6,646,700t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6413.

6,646,700 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,549,347passenger cars driven for a year
866,810homes' yearly energy use
110,778,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in Saudi Arabia

Qurayyah Thermal power plant: 6,275 MW6kQurayyah T…MARAFIQ Independent Water and power plant: 2,740 MW3kMARAFIQ In…Rabigh 2 IPP power station: 2,058 MW2kRabigh 2 I…Al-Qassim power plant: 2,027 MW2kAl-Qassim …Jizan Central power plant: 1,556 MW2kJizan Cent…Fadhili cogeneration power plant: 1,509 MW2kFadhili co…Waad Al Shamal power station: 1,190 MW1kWaad Al Sh…Hail-2 power plant: 1,052 MW1kHail-2 pow…

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

Owner

Operated by Jubail Water and Power Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.0°Cannual mean temp
151heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,079cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 15 °CJF: 17 °CFM: 20 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 31 °CMJ: 34 °CJJ: 35 °CJA: 35 °CAS: 32 °CSO: 28 °CON: 22 °CND: 17 °CD35 °C

Heating degree-days here run 94% 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: 16/100 — 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 #2 largest other power plant of 15 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.

Saudi Arabia has 15 other power plants in this dataset, together about 20,548 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 27.0704, 49.6078 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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