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ANPARA

Coal power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. Approximate location 24.201, 82.7891.

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ANPARA is a 2,630 MW coal power station in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is operated by UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (UPRVUNL). Based on reported annual generation of 18,698 GWh, it can supply roughly 5,342,200 homes. It ranks #14 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 24,685,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 5,754,079 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

2,630MW installed capacity
18,698GWh reported / yr
5,342,200homes powered
24,685,000t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2000commissioned (~26 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000013.

24,685,000 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

5,754,079passenger cars driven for a year
3,219,223homes' yearly energy use
411,416,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2014: 9,671 GWh20142015: 11,151 GWh20152016: 13,227 GWh20162017: 15,335 GWh20172018: 18,698 GWh201819k GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (UPRVUNL). All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 24.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.4°Cannual mean temp
39heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,752cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
291 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 17 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 26 °CON: 21 °CND: 18 °CD33 °C

Heating degree-days here run 98% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 14/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #14 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 24.201, 82.7891 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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