Kounoune power station is a 67.5 MW oil power plant in Dakar, Senegal. It is operated by Kounoune Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 51k homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 21 Senegal power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 78.6% of Senegal's electricity; the national grid averages 540 gCO₂/kWh (19.8% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_kounoune_senega.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000409160; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 67.5 MW, Kounoune power station is around the median oil plant in Senegal (67.5 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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 Kounoune Power.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.7°N — 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 aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), 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 oil power plant of 6 in Senegal by capacity.
Senegal has 6 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 538 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.743768, -17.26635 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kounoune power station is a 67.5 MW oil power plant in Dakar, Senegal, commissioned in 2008.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 50,682 homes (estimated).
Kounoune power station is operated by Kounoune Power.
