Okpella Cement power station is a 60 MW coal power plant in Edo State, Nigeria. It is operated by Dangote Industries Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75k homes (estimated). It ranks #65 of 69 Nigeria power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2022, it is around 4 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Nigeria's electricity; the national grid averages 456 gCO₂/kWh (31.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_okpellacement_niger.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100001046646; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 60 MW, Okpella Cement power station is below the median coal plant in Nigeria (135 MW). 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 Dangote Industries Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 7.3°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 a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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 #13 largest coal power plant of 15 in Nigeria by capacity.
Nigeria has 15 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 6,654 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 7.344217, 6.462388 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Okpella Cement power station is a 60 MW coal power plant in Edo State, Nigeria, commissioned in 2022.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated).
Okpella Cement power station is operated by Dangote Industries Ltd.
