Shiroro is a 600 MW hydro power station in Niger, Nigeria. It is operated by Government of Nigeria. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 600,685 homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 13 Nigeria power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 30.9% 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 WRI1000035.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Government of Nigeria. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.0°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 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.
The #2 largest hydro power plant of 3 in Nigeria by capacity.
Nigeria has 3 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,900 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 9.9724, 6.8353 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
