Mohammedia 2 Power Plant is a 300 MW oil power station in Grand Casablanca Region, Morocco. It is operated by Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable (Morocco) [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 225k homes (estimated). It ranks #15 of 52 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 3.6% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_mohammedia2_morocc.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408224; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 300 MW, Mohammedia 2 Power Plant is well above the median oil plant in Morocco (139 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. 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).
Operated by Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable (Morocco) [100%].
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 33.7°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 70% 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: 24/100 — 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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion 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 #2 largest oil power plant of 7 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 7 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,193 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 33.68086, -7.4363 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Mohammedia 2 Power Plant is a 300 MW oil power plant in Grand Casablanca Region, Morocco, commissioned in 2009.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 225,257 homes (estimated).
Mohammedia 2 Power Plant is operated by Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable (Morocco) [100%].
