MELAMARUTHUR (MUTHIARA) is a 1,200 MW coal power station in Tamil Nadu, India. It ranks #329 of 2,225 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000264.
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The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 1,200 MW, MELAMARUTHUR (MUTHIARA) is well above the median coal plant in India (1,000 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.
The #308 largest coal power plant of 713 in India by capacity.
India has 713 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 805,419 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 8.9159, 78.1374 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
MELAMARUTHUR (MUTHIARA) is a 1,200 MW coal power plant in Tamil Nadu, India, commissioned in 2015.
