Other power plant in Northern Borders, Saudi Arabia. Approximate location 31.6508, 38.8614.
OtherNorthern BordersSaudi ArabiaCO₂ reported
Waad Al Shamal power station is a 1,190 MW other power station in Northern Borders, Saudi Arabia. It is operated by Saudi Electricity Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 893,520 homes (estimated). It ranks #39 of 146 Saudi Arabia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,882,600 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 671,935 cars driven for a year. In context, 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-6434.
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 Co. All plants by this company →
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.7°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 54% 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: 28/100 — 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 #7 largest other power plant of 15 in Saudi Arabia by capacity.
Saudi Arabia has 15 other power plants in this dataset, together about 20,548 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 31.6508, 38.8614 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
