Oil power plant in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. Approximate location 22.370304, 90.322186.
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United Payra power plant is a 147.3 MW oil power station in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. It is operated by United Payra Power Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 111k homes (estimated). It ranks #78 of 129 Bangladesh power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2021, it is around 5 years old — recently built. In context, oil supplies about 12.1% of Bangladesh's electricity; the national grid averages 696 gCO₂/kWh (2.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_unitedpayra_bangla.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408387; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 147.3 MW, United Payra power plant is well above the median oil plant in Bangladesh (100 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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 United Payra Power Ltd [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.4°N — 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 #10 largest oil power plant of 46 in Bangladesh by capacity.
Bangladesh has 46 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 5,065 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.370304, 90.322186 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
United Payra power plant is a 147.3 MW oil power plant in Patuakhali, Bangladesh, commissioned in 2021.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 110,601 homes (estimated).
United Payra power plant is operated by United Payra Power Ltd [100%].
