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Generator supplier and power solutions provider in Ethiopia. Serving Addis Ababa and industrial zones with reliable backup power.
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Site conditions · Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Elevation
1,204 m
plateau
Design ambient
34.1 °C
mean max 30.9 °C
Altitude derate
9%
output lost to thin air
Combined derate
12.6%
100 kVA ≈ 87 kVA here
Dire Dawa stands 1,204 m up — the lowest of the 7 Ethiopia cities we cover, on plateau ground. Thinner air means less oxygen per stroke, so 1,204 m costs 9% of rated output.
Practically: 100 kVA on the plate is about 87 kVA in Dire Dawa. Size from the plate and the set runs at its limit from day one, glazing bores and wet-stacking. At 1,204 m a turbocharged engine recovers most of that 9% and is usually worth the difference.
18.3 °C to 30.9 °C. A 12.6 °C cycle is enough to loosen connections within a year or two in Dire Dawa. The intermittent faults that follow get misread as controller trouble; they are almost always a terminal needing re-torquing.
Dire Dawa is roughly 1331 km north-east of our base at Embakasi, Nairobi, in a straight line and across a border. At 1331 km, mobilisation is a real line in any Dire Dawa quotation, and a machine waiting on a travelling part waits days, not hours. Hold a critical kit on site — filters, belts, an AVR, injectors — rather than ordering per failure.
Elevation: Open-Meteo Geocoding API (GeoNames elevation), retrieved 2026-08-26. Temperature: Open-Meteo Archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 2025 daily maxima and minima. Derate figures are planning estimates using standard corrections (approximately 1% per 100 m above 300 m; 2% per 5 °C above 25 °C); final sizing follows the engine manufacturer’s own derate tables for the set proposed.
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