PLTU Pangkalan Susu 1 & 2 is a 400 MW coal power station in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is operated by PLN (EPC : PT. Bagus Karya Guangdong Power Engineering PT. Nincec Multi Dimensi). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 501k homes (estimated). It ranks #100 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000967.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000102769); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 400 MW, PLTU Pangkalan Susu 1 & 2 is well above the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 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 PLN (EPC : PT. Bagus Karya Guangdong Power Engineering PT. Nincec Multi Dimensi).
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 4.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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 an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion 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 #64 largest coal power plant of 191 in Indonesia by capacity.
Indonesia has 191 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 101,995 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 4.1196, 98.2555 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PLTU Pangkalan Susu 1 & 2 is a 400 MW source-record coal power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia, commissioned in 2014.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 500,571 homes (estimated).
PLTU Pangkalan Susu 1 & 2 is operated by PLN (EPC : PT. Bagus Karya Guangdong Power Engineering PT. Nincec Multi Dimensi).
