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Dokiparru Cogen power station

Biomass power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. Approximate location 16.3091, 80.3112.

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Dokiparru Cogen power station is a 6 MW biomass power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is operated by Jocil Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,259 homes (estimated). It ranks #1666 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.1% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
8,259homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5044.

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

Owner

Operated by Jocil Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 16.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,875cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
27 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 32 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 33 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 28 °CON: 26 °CND: 24 °CD34 °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 #149 largest biomass power plant of 152 in India by capacity.

India has 152 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 3,072 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 16.3091, 80.3112 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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