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DURGAPUR STEEL TPS

Coal power plant in West Bengal, India. Approximate location 23.58, 87.2043.

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DURGAPUR STEEL TPS is a 1,000 MW coal power station in West Bengal, India. It is operated by Damodar Valley Corp. Based on reported annual generation of 5,981 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,708,971 homes. It ranks #152 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 6,305,900 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,469,907 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,000MW installed capacity
5,981GWh reported / yr
1,708,971homes powered
6,305,900t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2011commissioned (~15 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000109.

6,305,900 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,469,907passenger cars driven for a year
822,366homes' yearly energy use
105,098,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 3,633 GWh20142015: 4,179 GWh20152016: 6,327 GWh20162017: 6,182 GWh20172018: 5,981 GWh20186k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Damodar Valley Corp. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 23.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.3°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,049cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
84 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 19 °CJF: 22 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 32 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 27 °CON: 23 °CND: 19 °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.

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 #133 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 23.58, 87.2043 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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