Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 93 Saudi Arabia power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 286 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, SHAIBA (oil), accounts for about 8% of that 93-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), Saudi Electricity Co, Shuaibah Water and Electricity Company — control roughly 67% of that 93-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a arid Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SHAIBA (SEC) | Oil | 6,794 |
| 2 | Qurayyah Thermal power plant | Gas | 6,275 |
| 3 | RABIGH | Oil | 4,480 |
| 4 | GHAZLAN | Gas | 4,256 |
| 5 | Hajr for Electricity Production Co. Station | Gas | 4,098 |
| 6 | QURAYYAH- CC | Gas | 4,098 |
| 7 | Jizan IGCC power plant | Gas | 3,850 |
| 8 | Riyadh 9 | Oil | 3,760 |
| 9 | Nairyah IPP Power Plant | Gas | 3,600 |
| 10 | Riyadh 16 power plant | Gas | 3,600 |
| 11 | Rumah IPP Power Plant | Gas | 3,600 |
| 12 | Taiba Independent Power Plant | Gas | 3,600 |
| 13 | Riyadh 10 | Oil | 3,161 |
| 14 | RABIGH-2 | Oil | 2,800 |
| 15 | MARAFIQ IWPP (1) | Gas | 2,744 |
| 16 | MARAFIQ Independent Water and power plant | Gas | 2,740 |
| 17 | JEDDAH SOUTH | Oil | 2,640 |
| 18 | Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant | Oil | 2,640 |
| 19 | QURAYYAH -STEAM | Gas | 2,500 |
| 20 | Al-Rais power plant | Gas | 2,400 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — Saudi Arabia. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/saudi-arabia/
There are 156 power plants in Saudi Arabia in this open dataset, with about 151,716 MW of total capacity.
SHAIBA (SEC) is the largest at about 6,794 MW (oil).
The most common plant type in this dataset is oil (76 plants), across 4 fuel types in total.
Saudi Arabia's grid carbon intensity is about 692 gCO₂/kWh, with 2.2% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
Power plants in Saudi Arabia