Coal power plant in Rangpur, Bangladesh. Approximate location 25.5537569, 88.9486312.
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Barapukuria power station is a 525 MW coal power station in Rangpur, Bangladesh. It is operated by Bangladesh Power Development Board [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 657k homes (estimated). It ranks #53 of 129 Bangladesh power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 21.5% of Bangladesh's electricity; the national grid averages 696 gCO₂/kWh (2.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_barapukuria_bangl.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000100079; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 525 MW, Barapukuria power station is below the median coal plant in Bangladesh (1,320 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Bangladesh Power Development Board [100%].
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 25.6°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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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.
The #25 largest coal power plant of 29 in Bangladesh by capacity.
Bangladesh has 29 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 38,390 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 25.5537569, 88.9486312 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Barapukuria power station is a 525 MW coal power plant in Rangpur, Bangladesh, commissioned in 2006.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 657,000 homes (estimated).
Barapukuria power station is operated by Bangladesh Power Development Board [100%].
