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Mount Coffee

Hydro power plant in Montserrado, Liberia. Approximate location 6.5119, -10.6767.

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Mount Coffee is a 60 MW hydro power plant in Montserrado, Liberia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 60,068 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 2 Liberia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 52.6% of Liberia's electricity; the national grid averages 316 gCO₂/kWh (54.4% low-carbon) (2024).

60MW installed capacity
60,068homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023090.

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 6.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,923cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
42 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 26 °CON: 26 °CND: 26 °CD27 °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

Liberia has 1 hydro power plant in this dataset, together about 60 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 6.5119, -10.6767 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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