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Mahan Super Thermal Power Project

Coal power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. Approximate location 24.0087, 82.417.

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Mahan Super Thermal Power Project is a 1,200 MW coal power station in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is operated by Mahan Energen Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,501,714 homes (estimated). It ranks #124 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 7,193,500 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,676,807 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,200MW installed capacity
1,501,714homes powered (est.)
7,193,500t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4704.

7,193,500 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,676,807passenger cars driven for a year
938,119homes' yearly energy use
119,891,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest coal plants in India

VINDH_CHAL STPS: 4,760 MW5kVINDH_CHAL…MUNDRA TPP: 4,620 MW5kMUNDRA TPPMundra Thermal Power Project (Adani): 4,620 MW5kMundra The…MUNDRA UMPP: 4,000 MW4kMUNDRA UMPPTata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: 4,000 MW4kTata Mundr…SASAN UMPP: 3,960 MW4kSASAN UMPPTIRORA TPP: 3,300 MW3kTIRORA TPPTiroda Thermal Power Project: 3,300 MW3kTiroda The…

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

Owner

Operated by Mahan Energen Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 24.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.6°Cannual mean temp
50heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,816cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
337 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 17 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 26 °CON: 21 °CND: 18 °CD34 °C

Heating degree-days here run 98% 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: 14/100 — 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 #109 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 24.0087, 82.417 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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