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Harduaganj power station

Coal power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India. Approximate location 28.0175, 78.13.

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Harduaganj power station is a 1,270 MW coal power station in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is operated by U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,589,314 homes (estimated). It ranks #97 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 5,483,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,278,159 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).

1,270MW installed capacity
1,589,314homes powered (est.)
5,483,300t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4724.

5,483,300 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,278,159passenger cars driven for a year
715,089homes' yearly energy use
91,388,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in India

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

Owner

Operated by U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.0°Cannual mean temp
217heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,784cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
184 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 17 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 34 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 26 °CON: 20 °CND: 16 °CD34 °C

Heating degree-days here run 91% 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: 17/100 — 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 #85 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 28.0175, 78.13 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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