Karo power station is a 600 MW coal power station in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is operated by Karo Mining Holdings Ltd; Government of Zimbabwe. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 751k homes (estimated). It ranks #13 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_karo_zimba.
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 600 MW, Karo power station is around the median coal plant in Zimbabwe (600 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 Karo Mining Holdings Ltd; Government of Zimbabwe.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 18.6°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 #12 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 -18.567331, 30.669687 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Karo power station is a 600 MW coal power plant in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 750,857 homes (estimated).
Karo power station is operated by Karo Mining Holdings Ltd; Government of Zimbabwe.
