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BOKARO B

Coal power plant in Jharkhand, India. Approximate location 23.785, 85.88.

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BOKARO B is a 210 MW coal power station in Jharkhand, India. It is operated by Damodar Valley Corp. Based on reported annual generation of 568 GWh, it can supply roughly 162,171 homes. It ranks #412 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1993, it is around 33 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 3,161,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 736,923 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).

210MW installed capacity
568GWh reported / yr
162,171homes powered
3,161,400t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1993commissioned (~33 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000064.

3,161,400 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

736,923passenger cars driven for a year
412,285homes' yearly energy use
52,690,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 1,439 GWh20142015: 1,634 GWh20152016: 1,272 GWh20162017: 494 GWh20172018: 568 GWh20182k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Damodar Valley Corp. 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 humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 23.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.6°Cannual mean temp
5heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,772cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
279 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 21 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 26 °CON: 22 °CND: 18 °CD33 °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 #256 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 23.785, 85.88 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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