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BRAMHAPURAM DG

Oil power plant in Kerala, India. Approximate location 9.9975, 76.3744.

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BRAMHAPURAM DG is a 60 MW oil power plant in Kerala, India. Based on reported annual generation of 0 GWh, it can supply roughly 85 homes. It ranks #676 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1997, it is around 29 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 0.2% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

60MW installed capacity
0GWh reported / yr
85homes powered
1997commissioned (~29 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000067.

~225 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

52passenger cars driven for a year
29homes' yearly energy use
3,750tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2014: 8 GWh20142015: 13 GWh20152016: 5 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh201813 GWh

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

Local climate & thermal context

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.

27.4°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,435cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
23 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 27 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 29 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 27 °CND: 27 °CD29 °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 #14 largest oil power plant of 20 in India by capacity.

India has 20 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,920 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 9.9975, 76.3744 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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