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PAMPORE GT

Oil power plant in Kashmir, India. Approximate location 34.004, 74.9175.

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PAMPORE GT is a 175 MW oil power station in Kashmir, India. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 131,400 homes (estimated). It ranks #438 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 0.2% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

175MW installed capacity
131,400homes powered (est.)
1992commissioned (~34 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000319.

~344,925 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

80,402passenger cars driven for a year
44,982homes' yearly energy use
5,748,750tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20181 GWh

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

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.7°Cannual mean temp
2,314heating degree-days (base 18°C)
399cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,874 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 14 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 6% 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: 48/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #2 largest oil power plant of 20 in India by capacity.

India has 20 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,920 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 34.004, 74.9175 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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