Mawlamyine Cement power station — Myanmar

Mawlamyine Cement power station is a 40 MW coal power plant in Mon State, Myanmar. It ranks #57 of 69 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).

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

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 40 MW, Mawlamyine Cement power station is below the median coal plant in Myanmar (500 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #20 largest coal power plant of 21 in Myanmar by capacity.

Myanmar has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 17,010 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ngam Tae · Gas · 230 MW · Mon
• Mawlamyaing · Gas · 12 MW · Mon
• Malamyine · Coal · 45 MW · Mon
• Hpa-an power station · Coal · 1,280 MW · Kayin State
• Myainggalay Cement power station · Coal · 30 MW · Kayin State
• Thaton · Gas · 119 MW · Mon

Location

Coordinates 16.365184, 97.832431 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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