NARASINGPUR is a 10 MW biomass power plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is operated by Orient Power ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 13,765 homes (estimated). It ranks #1539 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.1% 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 WRI1020007.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Orient Power ltd.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen As) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 23.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
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.
The #124 largest biomass power plant of 152 in India by capacity.
India has 152 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 3,072 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.9649, 78.8132 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
