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Kenana

Oil power plant in Sinnar, Sudan. Approximate location 14.0333, 33.1667.

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Kenana is a 50 MW oil power plant in Sinnar, Sudan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 37,542 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 19 Sudan power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 20.3% of Sudan's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (79.7% low-carbon) (2024).

50MW installed capacity
37,542homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023172.

~98,550 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

22,972passenger cars driven for a year
12,852homes' yearly energy use
1,642,500tree 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.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Sudan

Khartoum North: 351 MW351Khartoum N…Kilo-X Dit: 260 MW260Kilo-X DitKenana: 50 MW50KenanaPort Sudan: 38 MW38Port SudanKilo-X Nec: 34 MW34Kilo-X NecKuku: 23 MW23KukuNyala: 16 MW16NyalaAtbara: 15 MW15Atbara

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.9°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,966cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
447 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 32 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 30 °CON: 28 °CND: 25 °CD33 °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

The #3 largest oil power plant of 10 in Sudan by capacity.

Sudan has 10 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 813 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 14.0333, 33.1667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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