Ennore Thermal Power Station is a 1,770 MW coal power station in Tamil Nadu, India. It ranks #151 of 2,225 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5018.
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The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM wiki unit-level table, historical/all-units fallback when no operating units, fetched 2026-07-05; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 1,770 MW, Ennore Thermal Power Station is well above the median coal plant in India (1,000 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #139 largest coal power plant of 713 in India by capacity.
India has 713 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 805,419 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 13.198, 80.3104 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Ennore Thermal Power Station is a 1,770 MW coal power plant in Tamil Nadu, India, Construction 1970.
