Qurayyah Thermal power plant

Qurayyah Thermal power plant is a 6,275 MW other power station in Central Governorate, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Saudi Electricity Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,711,778 homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 20,764,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 4,840,093 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 692 gCO₂/kWh (2.2% low-carbon) (2024).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6401.

20,764,000 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in Saudi Arabia

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

Owner

Operated by Saudi Electricity 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 25.8°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 98% 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: 14/100 — 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 #1 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.

Nearby power plants

• Hajr for Electricity Production Co. Station · Gas · 4,098 MW · Central Governorate
• QURAYYAH -STEAM · Gas · 2,500 MW · Eastern Province
• QURAYYAH- CC · Gas · 3,846 MW · Eastern Province
• Alkhobar · Oil · 1,189 MW · Eastern Province
• Abqaiq cogeneration power station · Gas · 360 MW · Eastern Province
• ABQ PP · Gas · 162 MW · Eastern Province

Location

Coordinates 25.826, 50.1351 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.