Port Qasim EPC power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Sindh, Pakistan. It is operated by Port Qasim Electric Power Company. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.7 million homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 122 Pakistan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 14.8% of Pakistan's electricity; the national grid averages 347 gCO₂/kWh (54.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1075849.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000103147); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 1,320 MW, Port Qasim EPC power station is well above the median coal plant in Pakistan (440 MW). Technically it is described as unknown. 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 Port Qasim Electric Power Company.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 24.8°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 a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion 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 #2 largest coal power plant of 44 in Pakistan by capacity.
Pakistan has 44 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 30,232 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 24.7845, 67.3694 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Port Qasim EPC power station is a 1,320 MW source-record coal power plant in Sindh, Pakistan, commissioned in 2018.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,651,885 homes (estimated).
Port Qasim EPC power station is operated by Port Qasim Electric Power Company.
