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PAGUTHAN

Gas power plant in Gujarat, India. Approximate location 21.78, 72.979.

GasGujaratIndiaCO₂ reported

PAGUTHAN is a 655 MW gas power station in Gujarat, India. It is operated by Apraava Energy Pvt Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 285 GWh, it can supply roughly 81,428 homes. It ranks #202 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1997, it is around 29 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 369,590 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 86,152 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 2.3% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

655MW installed capacity
285GWh reported / yr
81,428homes powered
369,590t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1997commissioned (~29 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000314.

369,590 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

86,152passenger cars driven for a year
48,199homes' yearly energy use
6,159,833tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 291 GWh20142015: 876 GWh20152016: 273 GWh20162017: 425 GWh20172018: 285 GWh2018876 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Apraava Energy Pvt Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 21.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.5°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,455cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
16 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 25 °CND: 22 °CD33 °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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~9% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #13 largest gas power plant of 79 in India by capacity.

India has 79 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 28,926 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 21.78, 72.979 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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