Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station is a 920 MW coal power station in Punjab, India. It is operated by Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 2,245 GWh, it can supply roughly 641k homes. It ranks #411 of 2,225 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1997, it is around 29 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 4,584,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 1.1 million cars driven for a year. 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-4737.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000102512; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 920 MW, Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station is around the median coal plant in India (1,000 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
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.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #379 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 30.2666, 75.1661 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station is a 920 MW coal power plant in Punjab, India, commissioned in 1997.
Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station generates about 2,245 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 641,457 homes.
Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station is operated by Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd.
Guru Hargobind Lehra Mohabbat Power Station has modelled emissions of about 4,584,700 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
