Panki Thermal Power Station is a 660 MW coal power station in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is operated by U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 826k homes (estimated). It ranks #459 of 2,229 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1976, it is around 50 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% 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 CT-5019.
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capacity: GEM wiki operating-unit table, summed from matched page, fetched 2026-07-05; fuel: Climate TRACE source-record fuel
At 660 MW, Panki Thermal Power Station is below the median coal plant in India (1,000 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.5°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 95% 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: 15/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #407 largest coal power plant of 716 in India by capacity.
India has 716 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 806,969 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 26.4766, 80.241 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Panki Thermal Power Station is a 660 MW source-record coal power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India, commissioned in 1976.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 825,942 homes (estimated).
Panki Thermal Power Station is operated by U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.
