Kinyerezi IV power station is a 330 MW gas power station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is operated by Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 372k homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 29 Tanzania power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 62.8% of Tanzania's electricity; the national grid averages 345 gCO₂/kWh (32.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_kinyereziiv_tanzan.
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 240 MW for Kinyerezi II 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 GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 330 MW, Kinyerezi IV power station is well above the median gas plant in Tanzania (240 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 6.9°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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #3 largest gas power plant of 11 in Tanzania by capacity.
Tanzania has 11 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 2,622 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -6.863267, 39.153972 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kinyerezi IV power station is a 330 MW gas power plant in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 371,674 homes (estimated).
Kinyerezi IV power station is operated by Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd [100%].
