Gas power plant in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 22.6289, 39.0467.
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Rabigh 2 IPP power station is a 2,060 MW gas power station in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Al-Mourjan for Electricity Production Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2.3 million homes (estimated). It ranks #22 of 156 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 4,986,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 1.2 million cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 63.3% of Saudi Arabia's electricity; 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-6417.
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 operating-unit sum (location L100000401075); fuel: GEM wiki unit-level operating Fuel(s), fetched 2026-07-05
At 2,060 MW, Rabigh 2 IPP power station is well above the median gas plant in Saudi Arabia (497 MW). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Al-Mourjan for Electricity Production Co.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
A gas turbine here also runs ~10% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt 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 #15 largest gas power plant of 71 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.
Saudi Arabia has 71 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 89,013 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.6289, 39.0467 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Rabigh 2 IPP power station is a 2,060 MW source-record gas power plant in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,319,585 homes (estimated).
Rabigh 2 IPP power station is operated by Al-Mourjan for Electricity Production Co.
Rabigh 2 IPP power station has modelled emissions of about 4,986,300 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
