Gas power plant in Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 24.6, 46.571.
GasAr RiyadSaudi ArabiaCO₂ reported
Riyadh 8 is a 2,072 MW gas power station in Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,333,551 homes (estimated). It ranks #16 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 6,909,800 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,610,676 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 WRI1030689.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). All plants by this company →
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 24.6°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 91% 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: 17/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~7% 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.
The #7 largest gas power plant of 50 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.
Saudi Arabia has 50 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 49,351 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 24.6, 46.571 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
