Oil power plant in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 20.63, 39.552.
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SHAIBA is a 1,191 MW oil power station in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Shuaibah Water and Electricity Company. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 894,045 homes (estimated). It ranks #38 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 22,046,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 5,138,928 cars driven for a year. 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 WRI1030704.
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 Shuaibah 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 20.6°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 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 #15 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 20.63, 39.552 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
