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Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station

Kenya

The 2719th largest power station in the world

80.3 MW · Capacity

Gulf Energy Thermal Power Station, also Athi River Thermal Power Station, is an 80.32 MW (107, 710 hp), heavy fuel oil-fired thermal power station in Kenya. This power station is one of about a dozen heavy fuel-fired power stations which offer the country backup capacity as standby plants that come on-line quickly, if and when geothermal and weather-dependent hydro-power fail to provide adequate supply to the national grid.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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  2. Lake Turkana Wind Power Station310 MW
  3. Olkaria I Geothermal Power Plant282.4 MW
  4. Gitaru Hydroelectric Power Station225 MW
  5. Olkaria V Geothermal Power Station172.3 MW

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