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MEJA STPP

Coal power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India. Approximate location 25.1447, 81.9415.

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MEJA STPP is a 660 MW coal power station in Uttar Pradesh, India. Based on reported annual generation of 65 GWh, it can supply roughly 18,599 homes. It ranks #200 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

660MW installed capacity
65GWh reported / yr
18,599homes powered
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000532.

~65,100 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

15,175passenger cars driven for a year
8,490homes' yearly energy use
1,085,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × 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.

Reported generation trend

2017: 0 GWh20172018: 65 GWh201865 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 25.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.2°Cannual mean temp
72heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,072cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
121 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 16 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 34 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 27 °CON: 22 °CND: 17 °CD34 °C

Heating degree-days here run 97% 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 #159 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 25.1447, 81.9415 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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