Gwadar power station is a 300 MW coal power station in Balochistan, Pakistan. It is operated by CIHC Pak Power Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 375k homes (estimated). It ranks #51 of 122 Pakistan power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 14.8% of Pakistan's electricity; the national grid averages 347 gCO₂/kWh (54.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_gwadar_pakis.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 300 MW, Gwadar power station is below the median coal plant in Pakistan (440 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CIHC Pak Power Co Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 25.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #29 largest coal power plant of 44 in Pakistan by capacity.
Pakistan has 44 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 30,232 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 25.2052, 62.3519 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gwadar power station is a 300 MW coal power plant in Balochistan, Pakistan, Announced 2029.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 375,428 homes (estimated).
Gwadar power station is operated by CIHC Pak Power Co Ltd [100%].
