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Cilacap Sumber power station

Coal power plant in Central Java, Indonesia. Approximate location -7.6832, 109.0964.

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Cilacap Sumber power station is a 1,260 MW coal power station in Central Java, Indonesia. It is operated by Sumber Segara Primadaya. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,576,800 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 178 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).

1,260MW installed capacity
1,576,800homes powered (est.)
2011commissioned (~15 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1075804.

~5,518,800 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,286,434passenger cars driven for a year
719,718homes' yearly energy use
91,980,000tree 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 Indonesia

PLTU Paiton I Unit 7 & 8: 5,355 MW5kPLTU Paito…PLTU Suralaya: 3,400 MW3kPLTU Sural…PLTU Tanjung Jati B - expansion: 1,324 MW1kPLTU Tanju…PLTU Tanjung Jati B: 1,320 MW1kPLTU Tanju…Cilacap Sumber power station: 1,260 MW1kCilacap Su…PLTU Jabar Selatan - Pelabuhan Ratu: 1,050 MW1kPLTU Jabar…PLTU Jawa Barat - Indramayu: 990 MW990PLTU Jawa …PLTU Banten 3 - Teluk Naga/Lontar: 945 MW945PLTU Bante…

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

Owner

Operated by Sumber Segara Primadaya.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 7.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.5°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,096cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
12 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 27 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 27 °CON: 27 °CND: 27 °CD27 °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 #5 largest coal power plant of 70 in Indonesia by capacity.

Indonesia has 70 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 29,333 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -7.6832, 109.0964 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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