Mbeya Power Project is a 300 MW coal power station in Tanzania, Tanzania. It is operated by Kibo Energy PLC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 375k homes (estimated). It ranks #8 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_mbeya_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 300 MW, Mbeya Power Project is well above the median coal plant in Tanzania (270 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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 Kibo Energy PLC [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 8.9°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).
The #4 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 -8.9147128, 33.4548536 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Mbeya Power Project is a 300 MW coal power plant in Tanzania, Tanzania.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 375,428 homes (estimated).
Mbeya Power Project is operated by Kibo Energy PLC [100%].
