Pomalaa Nickel power station is a 60 MW coal power plant in , Indonesia. It is operated by PT Aneka Tambang Tbk [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75k homes (estimated). It ranks #317 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 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 GEM_coa_pomalaanickel_indon.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000102801; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 60 MW, Pomalaa Nickel power station is below 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 PT Aneka Tambang Tbk [100%].
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 4.2°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #168 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 -4.179865, 121.592935 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Pomalaa Nickel power station is a 60 MW coal power plant in , Indonesia, commissioned in 2016.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated).
Pomalaa Nickel power station is operated by PT Aneka Tambang Tbk [100%].
