Gas power plant in Faryab, Afghanistan. Approximate location 37.230611, 65.460133.
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Tuti-Maidan power plant is a 100 MW gas power station in Faryab, Afghanistan. It is operated by Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (Afghanistan). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 17 Afghanistan power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 0.0% 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 GOGPT_tutimaidan_afghan.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 100 MW, Tuti-Maidan power plant is around the median gas plant in Afghanistan (100 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (Afghanistan).
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.2°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 #4 largest gas power plant of 7 in Afghanistan by capacity.
Afghanistan has 7 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 4,216 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.230611, 65.460133 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tuti-Maidan power plant is a 100 MW gas power plant in Faryab, Afghanistan, Pre Construction 2026.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 112,628 homes (estimated).
Tuti-Maidan power plant is operated by Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (Afghanistan).
