Gallen Cement power station is a 30 MW coal power plant in Thiès, Senegal. It is operated by Dangote Industries Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 38k homes (estimated). It ranks #16 of 21 Senegal power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 1.3% of Senegal's electricity; the national grid averages 540 gCO₂/kWh (19.8% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_gallencement_seneg.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103398; fuel: GEM GCPT
Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Dangote Industries Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.8°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 aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), 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.
The #4 largest coal power plant of 4 in Senegal by capacity.
Senegal has 4 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 880 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.796229, -17.039687 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gallen Cement power station is a 30 MW coal power plant in Thiès, Senegal, commissioned in 2011.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 37,542 homes (estimated).
Gallen Cement power station is operated by Dangote Industries Ltd [100%].
