Western Sahara has 1 power plant in this atlas, with 23 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Dakhla IC Power Plant Western Sahara (23 MW, oil; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are oil.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Western Sahara
Vertically integrated utilityOne utility does everything
Wind farms near Laâyoune and Tarfaya supply much of the local power.
GenerationState utility
TransmissionState utility
DistributionState utility
CustomersGovernment-set tariffs
Who regulates
Electricity rules follow Morocco, with local oversight by the territory’s government.
Who controls the grid
Supplied by Morocco's ONEE grid in the territory it administers.
An official operator link has not yet been verified here.
Markets & power exchanges
No power exchange: the utility produces or buys electricity and sells it at set tariffs.
Regional grid
Not part of a larger synchronous grid or regional power pool.
What does “Vertically integrated utility” mean?
A single, usually state-owned utility generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Prices are set or approved by the government or a regulator rather than by a market.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Western Sahara is in Northern Africa. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.
Capital
El Aaiún
Languages
Berber, Hassaniya, Spanish
Region
Northern Africa
Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 1 records for Western Sahara. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
1 source record. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 1 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
