Saudi Renewables Tracker
Waad Al Shammal onshore wind project
A 500 MW onshore wind project at Waad Al Shamal, Northern Borders, under construction according to the Principal Buyer register.
The record
What the tracker and the register hold for this project
- Capacity
- 500 MWSaudi Renewables Tracker, KAPSARC snapshot 12 September 2026
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Stage counted on this site
- Under constructionTaken from the Principal Buyer register, checked 28 September 2026; the register leads where it and the tracker disagree
- Stage in the Principal Buyer register
- Under constructionListed as “Wad Al Shamal”; Saudi Power Procurement Company, checked 28 September 2026
- Stage as the tracker’s source publishes it
- InstalledKAPSARC Renewable Energy Projects Dashboard, snapshot 12 September 2026 The Principal Buyer register records a different stage. This site counts the register’s stage, because the Principal Buyer contracts the power and signs off commercial operation; the tracker’s reading stays published here.
- Completion year
- 2026As published; a year still ahead is a stated target
- Procurement route
- National Renewable Energy Program, round 4
- Tender year
- 2022
- 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
- Waad Al Shamal, Northern BordersLocality and region only; plant coordinates are not published
- Levelised cost of electricity, as tendered
- 1.702 US cents per kWhAs published in the KAPSARC dashboard, snapshot 12 September 2026
- Annual generation, modelled
- 1,752,000 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) | — → 500 MW | Principal Buyer register |
Location
Waad Al Shamal, Northern Borders
The tracker places this project at Waad Al Shamal, in Northern Borders. 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 Northern Borders
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
5.38 kWh/m²/day
Direct normal irradiance
5.4 m/s
Wind at 50 m
22.8 °C
Air temperature
Warmest month August, 34.6 °C
Aerosol optical depth: 0.42 · Dustiest month May
| January | 3.74 |
|---|---|
| February | 4.72 |
| March | 5.90 |
| April | 6.78 |
| May | 7.48 |
| June | 8.20 |
| July | 7.98 |
| August | 7.38 |
| September | 6.40 |
| October | 5.00 |
| November | 3.88 |
| December | 3.42 |
Source: NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project, climatology 2001–2020, public domain; retrieved 2026-09-24. Cell N30.0E42.0, 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.