Safi power station is a 1,386 MW coal power station in Doukkala Abda, Morocco. It is operated by Safi Energy Company SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.7 million homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 52 Morocco power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Morocco's electricity; the national grid averages 596 gCO₂/kWh (24.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_safi_moroc.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103053; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 1,386 MW, Safi power station is around the median coal plant in Morocco (1,320 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Safi Energy Company SA [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 32.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 #2 largest coal power plant of 5 in Morocco by capacity.
Morocco has 5 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 5,577 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 32.149115, -9.282294 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Safi power station is a 1,386 MW coal power plant in Doukkala Abda, Morocco, commissioned in 2018.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,734,480 homes (estimated).
Safi power station is operated by Safi Energy Company SA [100%].
