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Khohrang Dam

Hydro power plant in Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari, Iran. Approximate location 32.453, 50.147.

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Khohrang Dam is a 39 MW hydro power plant in Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari, Iran. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 39,044 homes (estimated). It ranks #94 of 107 Iran power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 3.3% of Iran's electricity; the national grid averages 660 gCO₂/kWh (5.7% low-carbon) (2025).

39MW installed capacity
39,044homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1008154.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Iran

Karoune 3: 2,000 MW2kKaroune 3Masjed Soleyman: 2,000 MW2kMasjed Sol…Shahid Abbaspuor: 2,000 MW2kShahid Abb…Siahbishe: 1,040 MW1kSiahbisheUpper Gotvand: 1,016 MW1kUpper Gotv…Karoune 4: 765 MW765Karoune 4Dez: 520 MW520DezSeymareh: 480 MW480Seymareh

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 32.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.0°Cannual mean temp
3,220heating degree-days (base 18°C)
310cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
2,574 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 2 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 0 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 31% above 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: 69/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #16 largest hydro power plant of 19 in Iran by capacity.

Iran has 19 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 10,858 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 32.453, 50.147 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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