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NASIK

Coal power plant in Maharashtra, India. Approximate location 19.9817, 73.8896.

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NASIK is a 630 MW coal power station in Maharashtra, India. It is operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 2,057 GWh, it can supply roughly 587,800 homes. It ranks #209 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1980, it is around 46 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 2,602,200 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 606,573 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

630MW installed capacity
2,057GWh reported / yr
587,800homes powered
2,602,200t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1980commissioned (~46 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000292.

2,602,200 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

606,573passenger cars driven for a year
339,358homes' yearly energy use
43,370,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2014: 3,730 GWh20142015: 3,870 GWh20152016: 2,973 GWh20162017: 2,580 GWh20172018: 2,057 GWh20184k GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 20.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.7°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,436cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
598 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 20 °CJF: 22 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 30 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 25 °CON: 23 °CND: 20 °CD30 °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 #163 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 19.9817, 73.8896 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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