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SRINAGAR

Hydro power plant in Uttarakhand, India. Approximate location 30.2313, 78.7924.

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SRINAGAR is a 330 MW hydro power station in Uttarakhand, India. Based on reported annual generation of 1,368 GWh, it can supply roughly 390,971 homes. It ranks #333 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. 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).

330MW installed capacity
1,368GWh reported / yr
390,971homes powered
2015commissioned (~11 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000422.

Reported generation trend

2015: 897 GWh20152016: 1,274 GWh20162017: 1,376 GWh20172018: 1,368 GWh20181k 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 30.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.9°Cannual mean temp
1,037heating degree-days (base 18°C)
634cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,630 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 15 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 17 °CON: 13 °CND: 10 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 58% 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: 27/100 — 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 #41 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 30.2313, 78.7924 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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