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Dahej

Solar power plant in Gujarat, India. Approximate location 21.694, 72.604.

SolarGujaratIndiaCO₂ reported

Dahej is a 10 MW solar power plant in Gujarat, India. It is operated by ONGC Petro additions Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated). It ranks #1494 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 1,056,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 246,224 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 9.4% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

10MW installed capacity
4,254homes powered (est.)
1,056,300t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0072490.

1,056,300 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

246,224passenger cars driven for a year
137,754homes' yearly energy use
17,605,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest solar plants in India

Kamuthi Solar Power Plant: 648 MW648Kamuthi So…BhSP3: 560 MW560BhSP3KUMSP} Greenko: 500 MW500KUMSP} Gre…NPKSP} Greenko: 500 MW500NPKSP} Gre…BhSP1: 420 MW420BhSP1BhSP3} SBG: 360 MW360BhSP3} SBGKUMSP} Softbank: 350 MW350KUMSP} Sof…PaSP} Renew 2: 300 MW300PaSP} Rene…

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

Owner

Operated by ONGC Petro additions Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 21.7°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)
3,424cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
7 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 32 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 26 °CND: 23 °CD32 °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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 2.5% at warm-season highs here (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 #526 largest solar power plant of 851 in India by capacity.

India has 851 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 25,549 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 21.694, 72.604 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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