Oil power plant in Hama, Syrian Arab Republic. Approximate location 35.263, 36.585.
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Mehardeh Thermal Power Plant Syria is a 630 MW oil power station in Hama, Syrian Arab Republic. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 473k homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 18 Syrian Arab Republic power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 44.2% of Syrian Arab Republic's electricity; the national grid averages 706 gCO₂/kWh (3.5% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0041656.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000407073); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 630 MW, Mehardeh Thermal Power Plant Syria is around the median oil plant in Syrian Arab Republic (630 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.3°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 53% 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: 28/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #4 largest oil power plant of 7 in Syrian Arab Republic by capacity.
Syrian Arab Republic has 7 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 3,547 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 35.263, 36.585 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Mehardeh Thermal Power Plant Syria is a 630 MW source-record oil power plant in Hama, Syrian Arab Republic.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 473,040 homes (estimated).
