Oil power plant in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 22.71, 39.021.
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RABIGH IWSPP is a 840 MW oil power station in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Rabigh Arabian Water and Electricity Company. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 630,720 homes (estimated). It ranks #49 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 34.5% 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 WRI1030698.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Rabigh Arabian Water and Electricity Company.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.7°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 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
The #23 largest oil power plant of 75 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.
Saudi Arabia has 75 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 60,817 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.71, 39.021 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
