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KOCHI REFINERY

Other power plant in Kerala, India. Approximate location 9.9722, 76.378.

OtherKeralaIndiaCO₂ reported

KOCHI REFINERY is a 180 MW other power station in Kerala, India. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 135,379 homes (estimated). It ranks #431 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 178,900 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 41,702 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

180MW installed capacity
135,379homes powered (est.)
178,900t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4922.

178,900 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

41,702passenger cars driven for a year
23,331homes' yearly energy use
2,981,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in India

Ratnagiri Combined Cycle power plant: 2,154 MW2kRatnagiri …Pragati Combined Cycle Gas Turbine-III power station: 1,500 MW2kPragati Co…Tripura Combined Cycle power plant: 726 MW726Tripura Co…Pipavav Combined Cycle power plant: 702 MW702Pipavav Co…Hazira power station (Reliance): 682 MW682Hazira pow…Uran Combined Cycle power plant: 672 MW672Uran Combi…Vadinar P1 power station: 600 MW600Vadinar P1…Dhuvaran Combined Cycle power plant: 595 MW595Dhuvaran C…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.4°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,435cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
23 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 27 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 29 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 27 °CND: 27 °CD29 °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 #32 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 9.9722, 76.378 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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