Bau-Bau Power Station is a 60 MW coal power plant in , Indonesia. It is operated by PT PLN (Persero). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75k homes (estimated). It ranks #312 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2024, it is around 2 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_baubau_indon.
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
At 60 MW, Bau-Bau Power Station is below the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 MW). 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 PT PLN (Persero).
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 5.5°S — 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).
The #163 largest coal power plant of 191 in Indonesia by capacity.
Indonesia has 191 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 101,995 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -5.459424, 122.605949 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Bau-Bau Power Station is a 60 MW coal power plant in , Indonesia, commissioned in 2024.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated).
Bau-Bau Power Station is operated by PT PLN (Persero).
