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Japan Power Company Lahore

Oil power plant in Punjab, Pakistan. Approximate location 31.3255, 74.2617.

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Japan Power Company Lahore is a 120 MW oil power station in Punjab, Pakistan. It is operated by IPP. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 90,102 homes (estimated). It ranks #35 of 62 Pakistan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 9.2% of Pakistan's electricity; the national grid averages 347 gCO₂/kWh (54.9% low-carbon) (2025).

120MW installed capacity
90,102homes powered (est.)
2000commissioned (~26 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1001634.

~236,520 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

55,133passenger cars driven for a year
30,845homes' yearly energy use
3,942,000tree 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 Pakistan

Hub Power Project: 1,292 MW1kHub Power …Bin Qasim: 1,260 MW1kBin QasimPak Gen (Pvt) Limited: 365 MW365Pak Gen (P…AES Lalpir Ltd. Mahmood Kot Muzaffargarh: 362 MW362AES Lalpir…Hub Power Project- Narowal: 220 MW220Hub Power …Nishat Chunian Limited: 200 MW200Nishat Chu…Nishat Power Limited: 200 MW200Nishat Pow…Piranghaib Multan: 192 MW192Piranghaib…

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

Owner

Operated by IPP. 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 hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.7°Cannual mean temp
405heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,500cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
208 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 20 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 31 °CMJ: 33 °CJJ: 31 °CJA: 30 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 25 °CON: 19 °CND: 14 °CD33 °C

Heating degree-days here run 84% 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.

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 #13 largest oil power plant of 14 in Pakistan by capacity.

Pakistan has 14 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 4,853 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.3255, 74.2617 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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