Gweru power station — Zimbabwe

Gweru power station is a 720 MW coal power station in Midlands, Zimbabwe. It ranks #9 of 25 Zimbabwe power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 42.9% of Zimbabwe's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (57.1% low-carbon) (2024).

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

Data provenance

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

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 720 MW, Gweru power station is well above the median coal plant in Zimbabwe (600 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #8 largest coal power plant of 21 in Zimbabwe by capacity.

Zimbabwe has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 15,630 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Changshi Gweru power station · Coal · 100 MW · Midlands
• Union Peak Thermal Kwekwe power station · Coal · 100 MW · Midlands
• Kwekwe Indarama power station · Coal · 300 MW · Midlands
• Zimbabwe power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Midlands
• Karo power station · Coal · 600 MW · Mashonaland West
• Bulawayo power station · Coal · 90 MW · Bulawayo

Location

Coordinates -19.45954, 29.780982 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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