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Dandeli Mill

Gas power plant in Karnataka, India. Approximate location 15.2529, 74.6283.

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Dandeli Mill is a 20 MW gas power plant in Karnataka, India. It is operated by West Coast Paper Mills Ltd.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 22,525 homes (estimated). It ranks #1174 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 2.3% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

20MW installed capacity
22,525homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019913.

~31,536 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

7,351passenger cars driven for a year
4,113homes' yearly energy use
525,600tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 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 gas plants in India

RATNAGIRI GAS: 1,967 MW2kRATNAGIRI …Sugen Combined Cycle power plant: 1,532 MW2kSugen Comb…KONDAPALLI GT: 1,458 MW1kKONDAPALLI…PRAGATI CCCP -III: 1,371 MW1kPRAGATI CC…DGEN MEGA CCCP: 1,200 MW1kDGEN MEGA …DGEN Mega Combined Cycle power plant: 1,200 MW1kDGEN Mega …SUGEN CCCP: 1,148 MW1kSUGEN CCCPDADRI GT: 830 MW830DADRI GT

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

Owner

Operated by West Coast Paper Mills Ltd..

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 15.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.5°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,373cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
512 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 23 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 28 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 24 °CON: 23 °CND: 22 °CD28 °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 ~7% 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 #76 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 15.2529, 74.6283 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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