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Saudi Aramco North Park solar car park

A 10.5 MW solar PV project at Dhahran, Eastern Province. Stage: Operating.

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The record

What the sources publish for this project

Capacity
10.5 MWPower Technology gives 10.5 MW; Global Energy Monitor gives 7.1 MWac.
Technology
Solar PVThin-film modules on car-park canopies over about 4,500 spaces
Stage counted on this site
OperatingAs published: “Commissioned in December 2012; currently active” (Power Technology)
Commercial operation
December 2012
Owners and developers
Shares as the owners publish them; a company without a share has not published one
Supplies
Saudi Aramco's North Park offices
Engineering and construction
BELECTRIC, Sun & Life
Arrangement
Owned by the user
Country
Saudi Arabia
Location
Dhahran, Eastern ProvinceLocality and region only; plant coordinates are not published

Modelled output

Estimated annual generation

Modelled, not measured

18

GWh a year

19.9%

Capacity factor

5.6% of the modelled output of this tracker’s operational solar projects.

  • Fixed at the optimal tiltCounted here18 GWh19.9%1,741 kWh per kWp
  • Single-axis tracker21 GWh23.3%2,039 kWh per kWp

Yield read at the centre of Dhahran, rounded to 0.1°. Mounting as the source describes it.

Annual kWh per kWp from PVGIS for crystalline silicon with 14% system loss, multiplied by the capacity as the source states it and taken as peak. A plant rated in MWac carries more DC capacity, so its estimate runs low.

Tracker totals, modelled

Solar projects with an estimate only; the counted mounting for each.
StageProjectsCapacity, MWGWh a yearCapacity factor
Operational6 / 717332921.7%
Contracted3 / 47213120.7%
Observed0 / 100—

Solar yield: PVGIS 5.2 (PVGIS-SARAH2), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. © European Union. Estimate as JSON

Sources

Where each figure comes from

PublisherPublicationPublishedRead onKind
Power TechnologyPower plant profile: Saudi Aramco North Park Project, Saudi Arabia21 October 202424 September 2026Press or compiler
Global Energy MonitorDhahran Solar Car ParkUndated24 September 2026Press or compiler

Where sources disagree

Both readings, and the one counted

Capacity

  • 10.5 MW, commissioned December 2012 — Power Technology
  • 7.1 MWac, start year 2023, owner Saudi Aramco Power — Global Energy Monitor

Counted on this site: 10.5 MW, owner Saudi Aramco

Why: The figure published at construction; Global Energy Monitor's AC figure and start year come from a satellite survey and are kept beside it.

Solar and wind resource

The resource at Dhahran

NASA POWER's long-run means for the 0.5° cell that holds the locality: an area-level picture, not a site measurement.

5.52 kWh/m²/day

Global horizontal irradiance

About 2,015 kWh/m² a year

3.94 kWh/m²/day

Direct normal irradiance

5.8 m/s

Wind at 50 m

27.2 °C

Air temperature

Warmest month August, 35.6 °C

Aerosol optical depth: 0.56 · Dustiest month July

Global horizontal irradiance by month, kWh/m²/day
January: 3.74 kWh/m²/dayJanFebruary: 4.46 kWh/m²/dayFebMarch: 5.34 kWh/m²/dayMarApril: 5.94 kWh/m²/dayAprMay: 6.84 kWh/m²/dayMayJune: 7.34 kWh/m²/dayJunJuly: 7.00 kWh/m²/dayJulAugust: 6.70 kWh/m²/dayAugSeptember: 6.16 kWh/m²/daySepOctober: 5.16 kWh/m²/dayOctNovember: 3.94 kWh/m²/dayNovDecember: 3.52 kWh/m²/dayDec
January3.74
February4.46
March5.34
April5.94
May6.84
June7.34
July7.00
August6.70
September6.16
October5.16
November3.94
December3.52

Source: NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project, climatology 2001–2020, public domain; retrieved 2026-09-24. Cell N26.0E50.0, native resolution 1° (CERES SYN1deg). These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.

See it on the Energy AtlasResource as JSON

Saudi captive and corporate solar, 24 September 2026 (2026-09)