Gombe power station is a 500 MW coal power station in Gombe State, Nigeria. It is operated by Trombay Power Generation Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 626k homes (estimated). It ranks #38 of 69 Nigeria power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Nigeria's electricity; the national grid averages 456 gCO₂/kWh (31.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_gombe_niger.
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 GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 500 MW, Gombe power station is well above the median coal plant in Nigeria (135 MW). 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 Trombay Power Generation Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.2°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).
The #6 largest coal power plant of 15 in Nigeria by capacity.
Nigeria has 15 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 6,654 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 10.216667, 11.383333 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gombe power station is a 500 MW coal power plant in Gombe State, Nigeria.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 625,714 homes (estimated).
Gombe power station is operated by Trombay Power Generation Ltd [100%].
