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BLCP Power

Coal power plant in Rayong, Thailand. Approximate location 12.6448, 101.1605.

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BLCP Power is a 1,346 MW coal power station in Rayong, Thailand. It is operated by EGCO. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,684,422 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 196 Thailand power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 17.8% of Thailand's electricity; the national grid averages 546 gCO₂/kWh (16.6% low-carbon) (2025).

1,346MW installed capacity
1,684,422homes powered (est.)
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019458.

~5,895,480 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,374,238passenger cars driven for a year
768,842homes' yearly energy use
98,258,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Thailand

Mae Mah: 2,400 MW2kMae MahBLCP Power: 1,346 MW1kBLCP PowerGheco One power station: 660 MW660Gheco One …Glow Energy power complex: 526 MW526Glow Energ…Tha Tum power station: 328 MW328Tha Tum po…

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

Owner

Operated by EGCO. 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 tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 12.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,648cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
9 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 29 °CMJ: 29 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 27 °CND: 26 °CD30 °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 #2 largest coal power plant of 5 in Thailand by capacity.

Thailand has 5 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 5,260 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 12.6448, 101.1605 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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