Harare power station is a 90 MW coal power plant in Harare, Zimbabwe. It is operated by ZESA Holdings Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #24 of 25 Zimbabwe power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1955, it is around 71 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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_harare_zimba.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 30 MW for Harare power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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 90 MW, Harare power station is below the median coal plant in Zimbabwe (600 MW). 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 ZESA Holdings Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 17.8°S — 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 #20 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.
Coordinates -17.845, 31.031667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Harare power station is a 90 MW coal power plant in Harare, Zimbabwe, commissioned in 1955.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 112,628 homes (estimated).
Harare power station is operated by ZESA Holdings Ltd [100%].
