Tororo is a 10 MW solar power plant in Eastern Region, Uganda. It is operated by Electro-Maxx (U) Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.3k homes (estimated). It ranks #16 of 16 Uganda power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 2.9% of Uganda's electricity; the national grid averages 59 gCO₂/kWh (97.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0064814.
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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 tracker 2026 (location L100000827760); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as PV. Its current lifecycle status is “announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Solar PV converts sunlight directly into electricity with no moving parts or fuel; output varies by time of day and weather, so it pairs with storage or flexible backup.
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 Electro-Maxx (U) Ltd [100%].
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 0.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
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.
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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), 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 #3 largest solar power plant of 3 in Uganda by capacity.
Uganda has 3 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 44 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 0.631, 34.111 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tororo is a 10 MW source-record solar power plant in Eastern Region, Uganda.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated).
Tororo is operated by Electro-Maxx (U) Ltd [100%].
