Kiwira Mine-2 power station is a 600 MW coal power station in Tanzania, Tanzania. It is operated by Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 751k homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 29 Tanzania power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% 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 GEM_coa_kiwiramine2_tanza.
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, Kiwira Mine-2 power station is well above the median coal plant in Tanzania (270 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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 Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 9.5°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 #1 largest coal power plant of 9 in Tanzania by capacity.
Tanzania has 9 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 2,765 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -9.485085, 33.670349 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kiwira Mine-2 power station is a 600 MW coal power plant in Tanzania, Tanzania, Announced 2027.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 750,857 homes (estimated).
Kiwira Mine-2 power station is operated by Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd [100%].
