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Ghanour Biomass power station

Biomass power plant in Punjab, India. Approximate location 30.3493, 76.6045.

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Ghanour Biomass power station is a 12 MW biomass power plant in Punjab, India. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated). It ranks #1421 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).

12MW installed capacity
16,518homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5060.

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

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.5°Cannual mean temp
369heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,402cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
262 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 20 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 32 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 24 °CON: 19 °CND: 14 °CD32 °C

Heating degree-days here run 85% 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: 19/100 — 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 #111 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 30.3493, 76.6045 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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