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Malamyine

Coal power plant in Mon, Myanmar. Approximate location 16.5, 97.662.

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Malamyine is a 45 MW coal power plant in Mon, Myanmar. It is operated by Pacific Link Cement. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 56,314 homes (estimated). It ranks #24 of 35 Myanmar power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2017, it is around 9 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 5.5% of Myanmar's electricity; the national grid averages 503 gCO₂/kWh (47.9% low-carbon) (2024).

45MW installed capacity
56,314homes powered (est.)
2017commissioned (~9 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061380.

~197,100 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

45,944passenger cars driven for a year
25,704homes' yearly energy use
3,285,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Myanmar

Tigyit: 120 MW120TigyitMalamyine: 45 MW45Malamyine

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

Owner

Operated by Pacific Link Cement.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 16.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.9°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,236cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
16 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 25 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 27 °CON: 27 °CND: 25 °CD30 °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 #2 largest coal power plant of 2 in Myanmar by capacity.

Myanmar has 2 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 165 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 16.5, 97.662 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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