New Morupule power station — Botswana

New Morupule power station is a 615 MW coal power station in Central, Botswana. It ranks #3 of 12 Botswana power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 98.3% of Botswana's electricity; the national grid averages 851 gCO₂/kWh (0.3% low-carbon) (2024).

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

Capacity provenance

The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 132 MW for Morupule A Power Station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 615 MW, New Morupule power station is around the median coal plant in Botswana (600 MW). 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3 largest coal power plant of 11 in Botswana by capacity.

Botswana has 11 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 8,111 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Morpule · Coal · 732 MW · Central
• Morupule IPP · Coal · 600 MW · Central
• Sechaba power station · Coal · 300 MW · Central
• Tom Burke Solar Park · Solar · 66 MW · Central
• Vedanta power station · Coal · 600 MW · Limpopo
• CIC Domestic power station · Coal · 300 MW · Central

Location

Coordinates -22.522588, 27.056204 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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