Hydro power plant in Kabul, Afghanistan. Approximate location 34.5865, 69.7757.
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Sarobi Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant Afghanistan is a 22 MW hydro power plant in Kabul, Afghanistan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 22,025 homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 9 Afghanistan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 75.8% of Afghanistan's electricity; the national grid averages 131 gCO₂/kWh (86.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0040535.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 44% 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: 32/100 — 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.
The #4 largest hydro power plant of 6 in Afghanistan by capacity.
Afghanistan has 6 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 239 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.5865, 69.7757 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
