Sumsel-1 power station is a 700 MW coal power station in South Sumatra, Indonesia. It is operated by China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd; PT Lion Power Energy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 876k homes (estimated). It ranks #57 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2025, it is around 1 years old — recently built. 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_sumsel1_indon.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000102804; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 700 MW, Sumsel-1 power station is well above the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. 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 China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd; PT Lion Power Energy.
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 3.5°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).
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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness 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 #35 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 -3.476667, 103.999167 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Sumsel-1 power station is a 700 MW coal power plant in South Sumatra, Indonesia, commissioned in 2025.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 876,000 homes (estimated).
Sumsel-1 power station is operated by China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd; PT Lion Power Energy.
