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Katghora power station

Other power plant in Chhattisgarh, India. Approximate location 22.4872, 82.6266.

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Katghora power station is a 43 MW other power plant in Chhattisgarh, India. It is operated by Vandana Vidhyut Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 32,286 homes (estimated). It ranks #859 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

43MW installed capacity
32,286homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5134.

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

Owner

Operated by Vandana Vidhyut Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.3°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,045cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
325 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 19 °CJF: 22 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 32 °CAM: 35 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 26 °CON: 22 °CND: 19 °CD35 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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 #58 largest other power plant of 61 in India by capacity.

India has 61 other power plants in this dataset, together about 18,038 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 22.4872, 82.6266 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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