Zimbabwe power station is a 1,200 MW coal power station in Midlands, Zimbabwe. It is operated by ZESA Holdings Ltd; China Railway International Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.5 million homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 25 Zimbabwe power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 42.9% of Zimbabwe's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (57.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_zimbabwe_zimba.
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
At 1,200 MW, Zimbabwe power station is well above the median coal plant in Zimbabwe (600 MW). 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by ZESA Holdings Ltd; China Railway International Co Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 19.0°S — 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 #5 largest coal power plant of 21 in Zimbabwe by capacity.
Zimbabwe has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 15,630 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -19.016921, 29.152802 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Zimbabwe power station is a 1,200 MW coal power plant in Midlands, Zimbabwe.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,501,714 homes (estimated).
Zimbabwe power station is operated by ZESA Holdings Ltd; China Railway International Co Ltd.
