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IPTL Tanzania

Oil power plant in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Approximate location -6.6741, 39.1873.

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IPTL Tanzania is a 100 MW oil power station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is operated by IPPs. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 11 Tanzania power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 4.3% of Tanzania's electricity; the national grid averages 345 gCO₂/kWh (32.9% low-carbon) (2024).

100MW installed capacity
75,085homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019877.

~197,100 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

45,944passenger cars driven for a year
25,704homes' yearly energy use
3,285,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Owner

Operated by IPPs.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 6.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,923cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
48 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 28 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 26 °CON: 27 °CND: 27 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

Tanzania has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 100 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates -6.6741, 39.1873 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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