Saudi Renewables Tracker
Starah onshore wind project
A 2,000 MW onshore wind project at Starah, Riyadh, under construction according to the Principal Buyer register.
The record
What the tracker and the register hold for this project
- Capacity
- 2,000 MWSaudi Renewables Tracker, KAPSARC snapshot 28 September 2026
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Stage counted on this site
- Under constructionSaudi Renewables Tracker, snapshot 28 September 2026
- Stage in the Principal Buyer register
- Under constructionListed as “Starah”; Saudi Power Procurement Company, checked 28 September 2026
- Stage as the tracker’s source publishes it
- Under developmentKAPSARC Renewable Energy Projects Dashboard, snapshot 28 September 2026
- Completion year
- 2027As published; a year still ahead is a stated target
- Procurement route
- Public Investment Fund programme
- Tender year
- 2024
- Developers and published equity shares
- Shares as the developers publish them; a company without a share has not published one
- Grid
- National grid project
- Location
- Starah, RiyadhLocality and region only; plant coordinates are not published
- Levelised cost of electricity, as tendered
- 2.06 US cents per kWhAs published in the KAPSARC dashboard, snapshot 28 September 2026
- Annual generation, modelled
- 7,008,000 MWh a yearModelled in the tracker as capacity × 8,760 hours × a 40% capacity factor. Not metered output.
KAPSARC, Renewable Energy Projects Dashboard (July 2026 project data, snapshot 12 September 2026); SPPC / Principal Buyer, Renewable project register (38 records checked 11 September 2026). Tracker edition 2026-Q3.
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What changed
Changes on record for this project
Each entry is a change a weekly sync observed in the Principal Buyer register or the tracker, with the value on both sides.
| Date | Change | Before and after | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | Added to the register (backfilled) | — → 2,000 MW | Principal Buyer register |
Location
Starah, Riyadh
The tracker places this project at Starah, in Riyadh. This site publishes locality and region only: plant coordinates are confidential and are not shown on this page, in its data or in its API.
Solar and wind resource
The resource at Riyadh
NASA POWER's long-run means for the 0.5° cell that holds the locality: an area-level picture, not a site measurement.
6.30 kWh/m²/day
Global horizontal irradiance
About 2,300 kWh/m² a year
5.44 kWh/m²/day
Direct normal irradiance
5.9 m/s
Wind at 50 m
26.3 °C
Air temperature
Warmest month July, 35.8 °C
Aerosol optical depth: 0.45 · Dustiest month May
| January | 4.60 |
|---|---|
| February | 5.44 |
| March | 6.28 |
| April | 6.82 |
| May | 7.40 |
| June | 7.92 |
| July | 7.64 |
| August | 7.28 |
| September | 6.82 |
| October | 6.02 |
| November | 4.82 |
| December | 4.38 |
Source: NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project, climatology 2001–2020, public domain; retrieved 2026-09-24. Cell N23.0E45.5, 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.