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Lome

Oil power plant in Maritime, Togo. Approximate location 6.17, 1.35.

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Lome is a 101 MW oil power station in Maritime, Togo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75,986 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 3 Togo power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 0.0% of Togo's electricity; the national grid averages 423 gCO₂/kWh (29.6% low-carbon) (2024).

101MW installed capacity
75,986homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023196.

~199,465 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

46,495passenger cars driven for a year
26,013homes' yearly energy use
3,324,420tree 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.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 6.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,275cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
2 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 27 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 28 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 27 °CON: 28 °CND: 27 °CD29 °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

Togo has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 101 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 6.17, 1.35 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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