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N_SAGAR LBC

Hydro power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. Approximate location 16.5697, 79.3389.

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N_SAGAR LBC is a 60 MW hydro power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. Based on reported annual generation of 53 GWh, it can supply roughly 15,142 homes. It ranks #684 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 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).

60MW installed capacity
53GWh reported / yr
15,142homes powered
1992commissioned (~34 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000284.

Reported generation trend

2014: 42 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 13 GWh20172018: 53 GWh201853 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), 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 hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 16.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.7°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,916cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
185 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 30 °CMA: 33 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 29 °CSO: 28 °CON: 25 °CND: 24 °CD34 °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 #135 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 16.5697, 79.3389 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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