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UCHPINDA TPP

Coal power plant in Chhattisgarh, India. Approximate location 21.8858, 83.1215.

CoalChhattisgarhIndiaCO₂ reported

UCHPINDA TPP is a 1,440 MW coal power station in Chhattisgarh, India. It is operated by RKM Powergen Pvt Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 1,729 GWh, it can supply roughly 494,028 homes. It ranks #69 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 7,037,200 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,640,373 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).

1,440MW installed capacity
1,729GWh reported / yr
494,028homes powered
7,037,200t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2016commissioned (~10 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000471.

7,037,200 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,640,373passenger cars driven for a year
917,736homes' yearly energy use
117,286,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2015: 55 GWh20152016: 122 GWh20162017: 1,324 GWh20172018: 1,729 GWh20182k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by RKM Powergen Pvt Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 21.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.1°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,341cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
212 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 32 °CAM: 36 °CMJ: 33 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 23 °CND: 20 °CD36 °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 #60 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 21.8858, 83.1215 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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