Oil power plant in Paramaribo, Suriname. Approximate location 5.820761, -55.162192.
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DPP2 Bemland power station is a 63 MW oil power plant in Paramaribo, Suriname. It is operated by Energie Bedrijven Suriname NV [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 47k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 2 Suriname power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 46.0% of Suriname's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (52.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_dpp2bemland_surina.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 · L100000408596; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Engine. 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.
Operated by Energie Bedrijven Suriname NV [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.8°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).
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 an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion 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.
Suriname has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 63 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.820761, -55.162192 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
DPP2 Bemland power station is a 63 MW oil power plant in Paramaribo, Suriname, commissioned in 2014.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 47,304 homes (estimated).
DPP2 Bemland power station is operated by Energie Bedrijven Suriname NV [100%].
