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Nirmalapura

Wind power plant in North Western, Sri Lanka. Approximate location 7.9544, 79.7411.

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Nirmalapura is a 10 MW wind power plant in North Western, Sri Lanka. It is operated by Nirmalapura Wind Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,935 homes (estimated). It ranks #35 of 48 Sri Lanka power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 5.4% of Sri Lanka's electricity; the national grid averages 329 gCO₂/kWh (61.6% low-carbon) (2025).

10MW installed capacity
8,935homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1030400.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Sri Lanka

Madurankuliya: 12 MW12Madurankul…Pollupalai: 12 MW12PollupalaiVallimunai: 12 MW12VallimunaiMampuri-II: 10 MW10Mampuri-IIMampuri-III: 10 MW10Mampuri-IIINirmalapura: 10 MW10NirmalapuraUppudaluwa: 10 MW10UppudaluwaVidatamunai: 10 MW10Vidatamunai

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Nirmalapura Wind Power.

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 8.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.8°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,585cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
7 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 27 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 29 °CMJ: 29 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 27 °CND: 26 °CD29 °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 #6 largest wind power plant of 14 in Sri Lanka by capacity.

Sri Lanka has 14 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 129 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 7.9544, 79.7411 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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