Arusha power station is a 50 MW oil power plant in Arusha, Tanzania. It is operated by Symbion Power Lake Kivu Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 38k homes (estimated). It ranks #25 of 29 Tanzania power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 4.3% of Tanzania's electricity; the national grid averages 345 gCO₂/kWh (32.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_arusha_tanzan.
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The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000409159; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Symbion Power Lake Kivu Ltd.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 3.4°S — 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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with heat / UV the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #3 largest oil power plant of 3 in Tanzania by capacity.
Tanzania has 3 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 205 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -3.383403, 36.683389 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Arusha power station is a 50 MW oil power plant in Arusha, Tanzania.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 37,542 homes (estimated).
Arusha power station is operated by Symbion Power Lake Kivu Ltd.
