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Khasm El Girba

Hydro power plant in Kassala, Sudan. Approximate location 14.9222, 35.9083.

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Khasm El Girba is a 11 MW hydro power plant in Kassala, Sudan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11,012 homes (estimated). It ranks #19 of 19 Sudan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 77.9% of Sudan's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (79.7% low-carbon) (2024).

11MW installed capacity
11,012homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023174.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Sudan

Merowe: 1,250 MW1kMeroweRoseires: 234 MW234RoseiresJebel Aulia Dam: 15 MW15Jebel Auli…Jebel Aulia Dam: 15 MW15Jebel Auli…Sennar: 15 MW15SennarKhasm El Girba: 11 MW11Khasm El G…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.9°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)
3,993cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
472 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 32 °CAM: 32 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 30 °CON: 29 °CND: 27 °CD32 °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 #6 largest hydro power plant of 6 in Sudan by capacity.

Sudan has 6 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,540 MW of capacity.

Location

Coordinates 14.9222, 35.9083 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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