Farcha power station — Chad

Farcha power station is a 150 MW oil power station in N'Djamena, Chad. It is operated by Societe Nationale d'Electricite du Tchad. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 1 Chad power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_farcha_chad.

Capacity provenance

The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 60 MW for Farcha power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT

In context: how this plant compares

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.

Owner

Operated by Societe Nationale d'Electricite du Tchad.

Climate zone & how it works

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 12.1°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).

Location

Coordinates 12.13501, 14.99649 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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