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Lakwa Replacement power station

Gas power plant in Assam, India. Approximate location 26.9852, 94.9298.

GasAssamIndiaCO₂ reported

Lakwa Replacement power station is a 70 MW gas power plant in Assam, India. It is operated by Assam Power Generation Corp Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 78,614 homes (estimated). It ranks #642 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 105,096 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 24,498 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 2.3% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

70MW installed capacity
78,614homes powered (est.)
105,096t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4953.

105,096 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

24,498passenger cars driven for a year
13,706homes' yearly energy use
1,751,600tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest gas plants in India

RATNAGIRI GAS: 1,967 MW2kRATNAGIRI …Sugen Combined Cycle power plant: 1,532 MW2kSugen Comb…KONDAPALLI GT: 1,458 MW1kKONDAPALLI…PRAGATI CCCP -III: 1,371 MW1kPRAGATI CC…DGEN MEGA CCCP: 1,200 MW1kDGEN MEGA …DGEN Mega Combined Cycle power plant: 1,200 MW1kDGEN Mega …SUGEN CCCP: 1,148 MW1kSUGEN CCCPDADRI GT: 830 MW830DADRI GT

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

Owner

Operated by Assam Power Generation Corp Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.2°Cannual mean temp
100heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,013cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
158 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 16 °CJF: 18 °CFM: 21 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 25 °CON: 21 °CND: 17 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 96% 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: 15/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~6% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #64 largest gas power plant of 79 in India by capacity.

India has 79 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 28,926 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 26.9852, 94.9298 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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