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Bersia

Hydro power plant in Yala, Malaysia. Approximate location 5.4297, 101.2092.

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Bersia is a 48 MW hydro power plant in Yala, Malaysia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 48,054 homes (estimated). It ranks #41 of 55 Malaysia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 17.5% of Malaysia's electricity; the national grid averages 602 gCO₂/kWh (20.7% low-carbon) (2025).

48MW installed capacity
48,054homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000233.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Malaysia

Pergau: 600 MW600PergauKenyir: 400 MW400KenyirTemenggor: 348 MW348TemenggorHulu Terengganu: 250 MW250Hulu Teren…Kenering: 120 MW120KeneringBatang Al: 103 MW103Batang AlTenom Pangi: 66 MW66Tenom PangiSG. Piah Lower: 54 MW54SG. Piah L…

Installed capacity (MW), 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 rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.9°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,880cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
304 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 25 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 26 °CON: 26 °CND: 25 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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 #9 largest hydro power plant of 9 in Malaysia by capacity.

Malaysia has 9 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,989 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 5.4297, 101.2092 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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