Brahmapuram Diesel power station is a 64 MW oil power plant in Kerala, India. It is operated by Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 48k homes (estimated). It ranks #989 of 2,229 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1997, it is around 29 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 22,740 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 5.3k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.2% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4988.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000408398); fuel: Climate TRACE source-record fuel
At 64 MW, Brahmapuram Diesel power station is below the median oil plant in India (82 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #14 largest oil power plant of 21 in India by capacity.
India has 21 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 2,134 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 9.9974, 76.3732 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Brahmapuram Diesel power station is a 64 MW source-record oil power plant in Kerala, India, commissioned in 1997.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 48,054 homes (estimated).
Brahmapuram Diesel power station is operated by Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd.
Brahmapuram Diesel power station has modelled emissions of about 22,740 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
