Oil power plant in Akjoujt, Mauritania. Approximate location 20.540573, -15.529067.
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Tasiast Mine power plant is a 60 MW oil power plant in Akjoujt, Mauritania. It is operated by Kinross Gold Corp. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 45k homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 8 Mauritania power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 77.3% of Mauritania's electricity; the national grid averages 512 gCO₂/kWh (22.7% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_tasiastmine_maurit.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408667; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Engine. 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 Kinross Gold Corp.
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 20.5°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).
The #2 largest oil power plant of 4 in Mauritania by capacity.
Mauritania has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 193 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 20.540573, -15.529067 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tasiast Mine power plant is a 60 MW oil power plant in Akjoujt, Mauritania.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 45,051 homes (estimated).
Tasiast Mine power plant is operated by Kinross Gold Corp.
