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Saudi Renewables Tracker
58 Saudi renewable-energy projects and a combined 70 GW of tracked capacity, with a routing view mapping each project's standard, verifier and buyer channel.
- Source KAPSARC Renewable Projects Tracker, cross-checked against the SPPC project register, NREP public data and developer disclosures; where the register and the tracker record a different stage, the Principal Buyer's register is the stage counted here
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Saudi renewable-energy projects tracked
Source: KAPSARC Renewable Projects Tracker, cross-checked against the SPPC project register, NREP public data and developer disclosures; where the register and the tracker record a different stage, the Principal Buyer's register is the stage counted here
70 GW
Combined tracked capacity — operating, under construction and tendered
Source: KAPSARC Renewable Projects Tracker, cross-checked against the SPPC project register, NREP public data and developer disclosures; where the register and the tracker record a different stage, the Principal Buyer's register is the stage counted here
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Captive and corporate
Solar built for one user
Saudi solar plants that sell to one company rather than to the grid through the Principal Buyer: corporate power purchase agreements, plants owned by the factory or farm they supply, and plants built into water projects. They are counted apart from the tracker's totals.
| Project | Capacity | Technology | Supplies | Arrangement | Stage | Operation date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NADEC Haradh solar PV | 30 MWp | Solar PV | NADEC | Corporate power purchase agreement | Operating | 22 December 2021 |
| Al Jouf Cement solar PV, Turaif | 22 MWp | Solar PV | Al Jouf Cement | Corporate power purchase agreement | Contracted | — |
| Northern Region Cement solar PV, Turaif | 20 MW | Solar PV | Northern Region Cement | Owned by the user | Contracted | Q4 2026, expected |
| Riyadh Cement solar PV, Al-Muzahimiyah | 30 MW | Solar PV | Riyadh Cement | Corporate power purchase agreement | Contracted | Q4 2027, expected |
| Jubail 3A IWP solar PV (Jazlah) | 45.5 MW | Solar PV | The Jubail 3A desalination plant it is built into | Built into the plant it supplies | Operating | 3 June 2023 |
| Jubail 3B IWP solar PV | 61 MW | Solar PV | The Jubail 3B desalination plant it is built into | Built into the plant it supplies | Operating | 2024 |
| Yanbu 4 IWP solar PV | 11 MW | Solar PV | The Yanbu 4 desalination plant it is built into | Built into the plant it supplies | Operating | April 2024 |
| Al Khafji solar desalination plant PV | Not published | Solar PV | The Al Khafji desalination plant it supplies | Built into the plant it supplies | Operating | 2018 |
| Saudi Aramco North Park solar car park | 10.5 MW | Solar PV | Saudi Aramco's North Park offices | Owned by the user | Operating | December 2012 |
| Almarai Al Kharj solar PV | 15 MW | Solar PV | Almarai | Owned by the user | Operating | August 2019 |
| Ma'aden Al Baitha bauxite mine solar and storage | 8 MWp | Solar PV and battery | Maaden Bauxite and Alumina Company | Corporate power purchase agreement | Contracted | — |
| Ma'aden Solar I (solar steam) | 1,500 MWth | Solar heat for industry | Ma'aden | Corporate power purchase agreement | Announced | — |
| As Salilah PV | Not published | Solar PV | — | Not published | Site observed; public details not found | — |
13 projects, 253 MW of electrical capacity as stated; solar heat and projects with no published capacity are not added.
Compiled from company releases, developer releases and trade press, each linked on the project's page; compiled 24 September 2026.
Sun against tariff
Every published solar tariff against the long-run sunlight at the project's locality. Sunlight varies little across the region; the price fell with each tender round.
- Colour by tender or award year
- ≤2017
- 2018–19
- 2020–21
- 2022–23
- 2024+
- Year not stated
Tariffs as the procurer or developer published them (the Saudi tracker's tendered levelised cost). Dirham tariffs converted at the fixed peg of 3.6725 AED per US dollar. Solar PV and CSP only.
Source: Renewable Vision, the Saudi and GCC renewables trackers; NASA Langley Research Center, POWER Project (NASA POWER). Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Saudi tracker); Compiled from public sources (GCC and captive); NASA POWER public domain. As of 2026-09-24; 2026-09-24.