TALWANDI SABO is a 1,980 MW coal power station in Punjab, India. It is operated by Vedanta (Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd). Based on reported annual generation of 9,860 GWh, it can supply roughly 2.8 million homes. It ranks #123 of 2,229 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. Its modelled annual emissions are 10,159,100 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 2.4 million cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000440.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000102518); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 1,980 MW, TALWANDI SABO is well above the median coal plant in India (1,000 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Vedanta (Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd).
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
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: 18/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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 #114 largest coal power plant of 716 in India by capacity.
India has 716 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 806,969 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 29.924, 75.2372 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
TALWANDI SABO is a 1,980 MW source-record coal power plant in Punjab, India, commissioned in 2015.
TALWANDI SABO generates about 9,860 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,817,000 homes.
TALWANDI SABO is operated by Vedanta (Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd).
TALWANDI SABO has modelled emissions of about 10,159,100 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
