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MANI DPH

Hydro power plant in Karnataka, India. Approximate location 13.6763, 75.0462.

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MANI DPH is a 9 MW hydro power plant in Karnataka, India. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 9,010 homes (estimated). It ranks #1607 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1993, it is around 33 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 8.6% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

9MW installed capacity
9,010homes powered (est.)
1993commissioned (~33 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000256.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in India

KOYNA COMPLEX: 1,956 MW2kKOYNA COMP…NATHPA JHAKRI: 1,500 MW2kNATHPA JHA…BHAKRA: 1,379 MW1kBHAKRAS.SAROVAR RBPH: 1,200 MW1kS.SAROVAR …TEESTA-III: 1,200 MW1kTEESTA-IIISHARAVATHY: 1,035 MW1kSHARAVATHYINDIRA SAGAR: 1,000 MW1kINDIRA SAG…KARCHAM WANGTOO: 1,000 MW1kKARCHAM WA…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 13.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,197cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
553 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 23 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 24 °CON: 24 °CND: 23 °CD27 °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 #215 largest hydro power plant of 233 in India by capacity.

India has 233 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,562 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 13.6763, 75.0462 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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