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RAMMAM

Hydro power plant in Sikkim, India. Approximate location 27.114, 88.1376.

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RAMMAM is a 50 MW hydro power plant in Sikkim, India. Based on reported annual generation of 236 GWh, it can supply roughly 67,342 homes. It ranks #816 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 8.6% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

50MW installed capacity
236GWh reported / yr
67,342homes powered
1995commissioned (~31 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000365.

Reported generation trend

2014: 236 GWh20142015: 252 GWh20152016: 247 GWh20162017: 122 GWh20172018: 236 GWh2018252 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.2°Cannual mean temp
345heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,147cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,195 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 13 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 19 °CMA: 22 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 21 °CON: 18 °CND: 14 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 86% 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: 19/100 — 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 #147 largest hydro power plant of 233 in India by capacity.

India has 233 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,562 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 27.114, 88.1376 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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