NALCO East Kutai power station is a 1,250 MW coal power station in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is operated by MEC Coal Pte Ltd; PT Nalco Indonesia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.6 million homes (estimated). It ranks #29 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_nalcoeastkutai_indon.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 1,250 MW, NALCO East Kutai power station is well above the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by MEC Coal Pte Ltd; PT Nalco Indonesia.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 1.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #22 largest coal power plant of 191 in Indonesia by capacity.
Indonesia has 191 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 101,995 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 1.254, 116.682 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
NALCO East Kutai power station is a 1,250 MW coal power plant in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,564,285 homes (estimated).
NALCO East Kutai power station is operated by MEC Coal Pte Ltd; PT Nalco Indonesia.
