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Mohammedia power station

Coal power plant in Grand Casablanca, Morocco. Approximate location 33.682, -7.435.

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Mohammedia power station is a 300 MW coal power station in Grand Casablanca, Morocco. It is operated by Office National de Electricite et de Eau Potable. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 375,428 homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 45 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1986, it is around 40 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).

300MW installed capacity
375,428homes powered (est.)
1986commissioned (~40 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023683.

~1,314,000 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

306,294passenger cars driven for a year
171,362homes' yearly energy use
21,900,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Morocco

Centrale Thermique de Jorf Lasfar (JLEC): 2,020 MW2kCentrale T…Jerada power station: 515 MW515Jerada pow…Mohammedia power station: 300 MW300Mohammedia…

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

Owner

Operated by Office National de Electricite et de Eau Potable.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. 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.

17.5°Cannual mean temp
741heating degree-days (base 18°C)
552cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
109 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 19 °CON: 16 °CND: 13 °CD23 °C

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.

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 #3 largest coal power plant of 3 in Morocco by capacity.

Morocco has 3 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 2,835 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 33.682, -7.435 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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