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BARGI

Hydro power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. Approximate location 22.9417, 79.925.

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BARGI is a 90 MW hydro power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. Based on reported annual generation of 354 GWh, it can supply roughly 101,257 homes. It ranks #581 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1988, it is around 38 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 8.6% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

90MW installed capacity
354GWh reported / yr
101,257homes powered
1988commissioned (~38 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000036.

Reported generation trend

2014: 496 GWh20142015: 326 GWh20152016: 443 GWh20162017: 158 GWh20172018: 354 GWh2018496 GWh

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen As) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.9°Cannual mean temp
30heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,536cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
489 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 24 °CON: 20 °CND: 18 °CD34 °C

Heating degree-days here run 99% 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #113 largest hydro power plant of 233 in India by capacity.

India has 233 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,562 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 22.9417, 79.925 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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