Gelugor is a 310 MW gas power station in Penang, Malaysia. It ranks #41 of 82 Malaysia power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 33.8% of Malaysia's electricity; the national grid averages 602 gCO₂/kWh (20.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000231.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 310 MW, Gelugor is below the median gas plant in Malaysia (650 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #30 largest gas power plant of 42 in Malaysia by capacity.
Malaysia has 42 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 32,464 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.3803, 100.3147 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gelugor is a 310 MW gas power plant in Penang, Malaysia, Announced 2001.
