Chinsali power station is a 1,200 MW gas power station in Chinsali, Zambia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.4 million homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 27 Zambia power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 0.0% of Zambia's electricity; the national grid averages 120 gCO₂/kWh (87.5% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_chinsali_zambia.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 10.5°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).
Zambia has 1 gas power plant in this dataset, together about 1,200 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -10.538525, 32.073014 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Chinsali power station is a 1,200 MW gas power plant in Chinsali, Zambia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,351,542 homes (estimated).
