Arkyiai power station — Sudan

Arkyiai power station is a 600 MW coal power station in Red Sea, Sudan. It is operated by National Electricity Corp [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 751k homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 22 Sudan power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Sudan's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (79.7% low-carbon) (2024).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_arkyiai_sudan.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

Owner

Operated by National Electricity Corp [100%].

Climate zone & how it works

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 19.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

Sudan has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 600 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Port Sudan · Oil · 374 MW · Red Sea

Location

Coordinates 19.583333, 35.616667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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