Hydro power plant in Centro Sur, Equatorial Guinea. Approximate location 1.5758, 10.4687.
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Djibloho is a 120 MW hydro power station in Centro Sur, Equatorial Guinea. It is operated by Ministry of Mines Industry and Energy [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 120k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 3 Equatorial Guinea power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2012, it is around 14 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 26.8% of Equatorial Guinea's electricity; the national grid averages 644 gCO₂/kWh (26.8% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023068.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109 nameplate capacity; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as conventional storage. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Operated by Ministry of Mines Industry and Energy [100%].
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 1.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness 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.
Equatorial Guinea has 1 hydro power plant in this dataset, together about 120 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 1.5758, 10.4687 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Djibloho is a 120 MW source-record hydro power plant in Centro Sur, Equatorial Guinea, commissioned in 2012.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 120,137 homes (estimated).
Djibloho is operated by Ministry of Mines Industry and Energy [100%].
