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Northern Region Cement solar PV, Turaif

A 20 MW solar PV project at Turaif, Northern Borders. Stage: Contracted.

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The record

What the sources publish for this project

Capacity
20 MW
Technology
Solar PV
Stage counted on this site
ContractedAs published: “Ten-month EPC contract awarded; operation scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026” (CemNet)
Agreement or award
October 2025
Operation date, stated target
Q4 2026
Owners and developers
Shares as the owners publish them; a company without a share has not published one
Supplies
Northern Region Cement
Engineering and construction
Sinoma Overseas Development Company
Arrangement
Owned by the user
Country
Saudi Arabia
Location
Turaif, Northern BordersLocality and region only; plant coordinates are not published

The company disclosed the contract to the Saudi stock exchange, as CemNet reports. Whether construction has started was not found in a public source.

Modelled output

Estimated annual generation

Modelled, not measured

37

GWh a year

21.1%

Capacity factor

28.3% of the modelled output of this tracker’s contracted solar projects.

  • Fixed at the optimal tiltCounted here37 GWh21.1%1,847 kWh per kWp
  • Single-axis tracker45 GWh25.7%2,254 kWh per kWp

Yield read at the centre of Turaif, rounded to 0.1°. Mounting assumed: plants of 50 MW and more on single-axis trackers, smaller ones fixed.

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
CemNetSinoma lands US$8.7m solar project from Northern Region Cement9 October 202524 September 2026Press or compiler

Solar and wind resource

The resource at Turaif

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

5.90 kWh/m²/day

Global horizontal irradiance

About 2,154 kWh/m² a year

6.20 kWh/m²/day

Direct normal irradiance

6.0 m/s

Wind at 50 m

19.5 °C

Air temperature

Warmest month July, 30.3 °C

Aerosol optical depth: 0.29 · Dustiest month May

Global horizontal irradiance by month, kWh/m²/day
January: 3.50 kWh/m²/dayJanFebruary: 4.40 kWh/m²/dayFebMarch: 5.72 kWh/m²/dayMarApril: 6.78 kWh/m²/dayAprMay: 7.62 kWh/m²/dayMayJune: 8.44 kWh/m²/dayJunJuly: 8.22 kWh/m²/dayJulAugust: 7.52 kWh/m²/dayAugSeptember: 6.46 kWh/m²/daySepOctober: 4.96 kWh/m²/dayOctNovember: 3.82 kWh/m²/dayNovDecember: 3.26 kWh/m²/dayDec
January3.50
February4.40
March5.72
April6.78
May7.62
June8.44
July8.22
August7.52
September6.46
October4.96
November3.82
December3.26

Source: NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project, climatology 2001–2020, public domain; retrieved 2026-09-24. Cell N31.5E38.5, 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)