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TENUGHAT

Coal power plant in Jharkhand, India. Approximate location 23.7573, 85.8936.

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TENUGHAT is a 420 MW coal power station in Jharkhand, India. Based on reported annual generation of 1,474 GWh, it can supply roughly 421,142 homes. It ranks #297 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 70.8% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).

420MW installed capacity
1,474GWh reported / yr
421,142homes powered
1995commissioned (~31 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000452.

~1,474,000 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

343,590passenger cars driven for a year
192,227homes' yearly energy use
24,566,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2014: 2,100 GWh20142015: 2,318 GWh20152016: 1,219 GWh20162017: 1,670 GWh20172018: 1,474 GWh20182k GWh

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

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 23.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.6°Cannual mean temp
5heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,772cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
279 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 21 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 33 °CMJ: 31 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 26 °CON: 22 °CND: 18 °CD33 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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 #218 largest coal power plant of 395 in India by capacity.

India has 395 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 300,917 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 23.7573, 85.8936 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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