IRPC power station is a 307 MW coal power station in Rayong, Thailand. It is operated by IRPC Clean Power Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 384k homes (estimated). It ranks #43 of 238 Thailand power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2012, it is around 14 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 17.8% of Thailand's electricity; the national grid averages 546 gCO₂/kWh (16.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_irpc_thail.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104674; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 307 MW, IRPC power station is below the median coal plant in Thailand (660 MW). 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 IRPC Clean Power Co Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 12.7°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).
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 an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion 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 #13 largest coal power plant of 18 in Thailand by capacity.
Thailand has 18 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 17,394 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 12.655398, 101.311848 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
IRPC power station is a 307 MW coal power plant in Rayong, Thailand, commissioned in 2012.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 384,188 homes (estimated).
IRPC power station is operated by IRPC Clean Power Co Ltd [100%].
