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BCPL Captive power plant

Other power plant in Assam, India. Approximate location 27.371, 94.8808.

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BCPL Captive power plant is a 86 MW other power plant in Assam, India. It is operated by Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 64,949 homes (estimated). It ranks #591 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 82,776 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 19,295 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

86MW installed capacity
64,949homes powered (est.)
82,776t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4965.

82,776 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

19,295passenger cars driven for a year
10,795homes' yearly energy use
1,379,600tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest other plants in India

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.5°Cannual mean temp
84heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,092cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
104 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 16 °CJF: 18 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 25 °CON: 21 °CND: 17 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 97% 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: 15/100 — 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 #50 largest other power plant of 61 in India by capacity.

India has 61 other power plants in this dataset, together about 18,038 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 27.371, 94.8808 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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