Nam Phom is a 710 MW gas power station in Khon Kaen, Thailand. It ranks #28 of 238 Thailand power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 65.5% of Thailand's electricity; the national grid averages 546 gCO₂/kWh (16.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000165.
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: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 710 MW, Nam Phom is well above the median gas plant in Thailand (256 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #17 largest gas power plant of 61 in Thailand by capacity.
Thailand has 61 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 42,069 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 16.682, 102.7422 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Nam Phom is a 710 MW gas power plant in Khon Kaen, Thailand, Announced 1992.
