Coal power plant in Lanao del Norte, Philippines. Approximate location 8.18691, 124.11545.
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Lanao Kauswagan power station is a 552 MW coal power station in Lanao del Norte, Philippines. It is operated by GNPower Kauswagan Ltd Co [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 691k homes (estimated). It ranks #36 of 186 Philippines power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 58.7% of Philippines's electricity; the national grid averages 588 gCO₂/kWh (23.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_lanaokauswagan_phili.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103193; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 552 MW, Lanao Kauswagan power station is well above the median coal plant in Philippines (300 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by GNPower Kauswagan Ltd Co [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 8.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #12 largest coal power plant of 50 in Philippines by capacity.
Philippines has 50 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 18,322 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 8.18691, 124.11545 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Lanao Kauswagan power station is a 552 MW coal power plant in Lanao del Norte, Philippines, commissioned in 2019.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 690,788 homes (estimated).
Lanao Kauswagan power station is operated by GNPower Kauswagan Ltd Co [100%].
