Yayu power station is a 90 MW coal power plant in Oromia, Ethiopia. It is operated by to be determined [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 15 Ethiopia power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Ethiopia's electricity; the national grid averages 23 gCO₂/kWh (100.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_yayu_ethio.
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 GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Operated by to be determined [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 8.4°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).
Ethiopia has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 90 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 8.37883, 35.93015 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Yayu power station is a 90 MW coal power plant in Oromia, Ethiopia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 112,628 homes (estimated).
Yayu power station is operated by to be determined [100%].
