Basundhara power station — India

Basundhara power station is a 4,000 MW coal power station in Odisha, India. It ranks #13 of 2,225 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

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

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 4,000 MW, Basundhara power station is well above the median coal plant in India (1,000 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #10 largest coal power plant of 713 in India by capacity.

India has 713 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 805,419 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Hemgir power station · Coal · 1,600 MW · Odisha
• Sundargarh Ultra Mega Power Project · Coal · 4,000 MW · Odisha
• Darlipali power station · Coal · 4,800 MW · Odisha
• Sodamal power station · Coal · 1,320 MW · Odisha
• Jharsuguda Sterlite power station · Coal · 2,400 MW · Odisha
• STERLITE TPP · Coal · 600 MW · Odisha

Location

Coordinates 22.116667, 84.033333 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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