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PLTU Sanggau

Coal power plant in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Approximate location -2.5213, 121.357.

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PLTU Sanggau is a 14 MW coal power plant in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is operated by PLN. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 17,520 homes (estimated). It ranks #156 of 178 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).

14MW installed capacity
17,520homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000975.

~61,320 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

14,294passenger cars driven for a year
7,997homes' yearly energy use
1,022,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Indonesia

PLTU Paiton I Unit 7 & 8: 5,355 MW5kPLTU Paito…PLTU Suralaya: 3,400 MW3kPLTU Sural…PLTU Tanjung Jati B - expansion: 1,324 MW1kPLTU Tanju…PLTU Tanjung Jati B: 1,320 MW1kPLTU Tanju…Cilacap Sumber power station: 1,260 MW1kCilacap Su…PLTU Jabar Selatan - Pelabuhan Ratu: 1,050 MW1kPLTU Jabar…PLTU Jawa Barat - Indramayu: 990 MW990PLTU Jawa …PLTU Banten 3 - Teluk Naga/Lontar: 945 MW945PLTU Bante…

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

Owner

Operated by PLN. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 2.5°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.9°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,514cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
459 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 25 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 25 °CAM: 25 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 26 °CON: 25 °CND: 25 °CD26 °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 #66 largest coal power plant of 70 in Indonesia by capacity.

Indonesia has 70 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 29,333 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -2.5213, 121.357 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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