Hydro power plant in Centre-Est, Burkina Faso. Approximate location 11.475, -0.546.
HydroCentre-EstBurkina Faso
Bagre is a 16 MW hydro power plant in Centre-Est, Burkina Faso. It is operated by Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,018 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 7 Burkina Faso power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 5.3% of Burkina Faso's electricity; the national grid averages 562 gCO₂/kWh (17.2% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023019.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 11.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #1 largest hydro power plant of 2 in Burkina Faso by capacity.
Burkina Faso has 2 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 30 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 11.475, -0.546 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
