Baluchaung BHP (1) is a 28 MW hydro power plant in Kayah, Myanmar. It is operated by Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise (MEPE). Based on reported annual generation of 200 GWh, it can supply roughly 57,142 homes. It ranks #29 of 35 Myanmar power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 46.1% of Myanmar's electricity; the national grid averages 503 gCO₂/kWh (47.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061350.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise (MEPE). All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 19.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
The #15 largest hydro power plant of 20 in Myanmar by capacity.
Myanmar has 20 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,725 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 19.57, 97.316 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
