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BSES Kerala CCGT

Gas power plant in Kerala, India. Approximate location 10.074, 76.3188.

GasKeralaIndiaCO₂ reported

BSES Kerala CCGT is a 165 MW gas power station in Kerala, India. It is operated by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 185,837 homes (estimated). It ranks #441 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1999, it is around 27 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 157,200 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 36,643 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 2.3% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

165MW installed capacity
185,837homes powered (est.)
157,200t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1999commissioned (~27 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000068.

157,200 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

36,643passenger cars driven for a year
20,501homes' yearly energy use
2,620,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 146 GWh20142015: 3 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 61 GWh20172018: 0 GWh2018146 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.1°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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~9% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #49 largest gas power plant of 79 in India by capacity.

India has 79 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 28,926 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 10.074, 76.3188 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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