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BHUSAWAL

Coal power plant in Maharashtra, India. Approximate location 21.0483, 75.8425.

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BHUSAWAL is a 1,210 MW coal power station in Maharashtra, India. It is operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 6,146 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,756,114 homes. It ranks #102 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 6,484,100 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,511,445 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,210MW installed capacity
6,146GWh reported / yr
1,756,114homes powered
6,484,100t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000058.

6,484,100 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,511,445passenger cars driven for a year
845,605homes' yearly energy use
108,068,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 5,855 GWh20142015: 7,506 GWh20152016: 5,666 GWh20162017: 6,160 GWh20172018: 6,146 GWh20188k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 21.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.4°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,445cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
282 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 22 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 33 °CAM: 35 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 24 °CND: 22 °CD35 °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 #90 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 21.0483, 75.8425 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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