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Seohara Avadh Sugar power station

Biomass power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India. Approximate location 29.1986, 78.5839.

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Seohara Avadh Sugar power station is a 25 MW biomass power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is operated by Avadh Sugar and Energy Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 34,414 homes (estimated). It ranks #1092 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.1% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

25MW installed capacity
34,414homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5098.

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

Owner

Operated by Avadh Sugar and Energy Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.5°Cannual mean temp
218heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,593cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
209 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 17 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 29 °CAM: 32 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 25 °CON: 20 °CND: 16 °CD32 °C

Heating degree-days here run 91% 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: 17/100 — 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 #38 largest biomass power plant of 152 in India by capacity.

India has 152 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 3,072 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 29.1986, 78.5839 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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