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Gunung Malang

Oil power plant in West Java, Indonesia. Approximate location -6.7409, 106.673.

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Gunung Malang is a 26 MW oil power plant in West Java, Indonesia. It is operated by PLN-East Kalimantan Regional Unit. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 19,146 homes (estimated). It ranks #139 of 178 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 1.9% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).

26MW installed capacity
19,146homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000758.

~50,260 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

11,716passenger cars driven for a year
6,555homes' yearly energy use
837,675tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 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 oil plants in Indonesia

Pesanggaran: 76 MW76PesanggaranPesanggaran BOO: 75 MW75Pesanggara…Suppa - Pare pare: 60 MW60Suppa - Pa…Bitung - Menado: 57 MW57Bitung - M…Ampenan: 56 MW56AmpenanPesanggaran BOT: 51 MW51Pesanggara…Tello: 50 MW50TelloPemaron BOO: 45 MW45Pemaron BOO

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

Owner

Operated by PLN-East Kalimantan Regional Unit. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 6.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.2°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
792cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
782 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 20 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 20 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 20 °CON: 20 °CND: 20 °CD21 °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 #14 largest oil power plant of 16 in Indonesia by capacity.

Indonesia has 16 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 707 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -6.7409, 106.673 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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