Samalut Mobile power plant is a 50 MW oil power plant in Menia, Egypt. It is operated by Upper Egypt Electricity Production Co [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 38k homes (estimated). It ranks #78 of 89 Egypt power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 7.4% of Egypt's electricity; the national grid averages 563 gCO₂/kWh (13.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_samalutmobile_egypt.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408179; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 50 MW, Samalut Mobile power plant is around the median oil plant in Egypt (50 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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 Upper Egypt Electricity Production Co [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.3°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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion 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 #10 largest oil power plant of 12 in Egypt by capacity.
Egypt has 12 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,400 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 28.313188, 30.710529 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Samalut Mobile power plant is a 50 MW oil power plant in Menia, Egypt, commissioned in 2015.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 37,542 homes (estimated).
Samalut Mobile power plant is operated by Upper Egypt Electricity Production Co [100%].
