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GADARWARA

Coal power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. Approximate location 22.8618, 78.8648.

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GADARWARA is a 800 MW coal power station in Madhya Pradesh, India. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,001,142 homes (estimated). It ranks #177 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

800MW installed capacity
1,001,142homes powered (est.)
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000539.

~3,504,000 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

816,783passenger cars driven for a year
456,964homes' yearly energy use
58,400,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 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 coal plants in India

VINDH_CHAL STPS: 4,760 MW5kVINDH_CHAL…MUNDRA TPP: 4,620 MW5kMUNDRA TPPMundra Thermal Power Project (Adani): 4,620 MW5kMundra The…MUNDRA UMPP: 4,000 MW4kMUNDRA UMPPTata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: 4,000 MW4kTata Mundr…SASAN UMPP: 3,960 MW4kSASAN UMPPTIRORA TPP: 3,300 MW3kTIRORA TPPTiroda Thermal Power Project: 3,300 MW3kTiroda The…

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

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 As) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.2°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,623cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
503 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 21 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 25 °CON: 21 °CND: 18 °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 #148 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 22.8618, 78.8648 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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