Coal power plant in Baghlan, Afghanistan. Approximate location 36.180424, 68.783043.
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Baghlan power station is a 160 MW coal power station in Baghlan, Afghanistan. It is operated by 77 Construction Contracting & Trading Co; Zularistan Ltd; Da Afghanistan Breshna. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 200k homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 17 Afghanistan power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 3.0% of Afghanistan's electricity; the national grid averages 131 gCO₂/kWh (86.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_baghlan_afgha.
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 “Announced” — 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 77 Construction Contracting & Trading Co; Zularistan Ltd; Da Afghanistan Breshna.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.2°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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Afghanistan has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 160 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.180424, 68.783043 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Baghlan power station is a 160 MW coal power plant in Baghlan, Afghanistan.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 200,228 homes (estimated).
Baghlan power station is operated by 77 Construction Contracting & Trading Co; Zularistan Ltd; Da Afghanistan Breshna.
