Vizag Steel Plant power station is a 435 MW other power station in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is operated by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 327k homes (estimated). It ranks #583 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 1,887,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 440k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4784.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000102082); fuel: GEM wiki unit table: blast furnace gas / coke oven gas / coal mix; industrial by-product fuel
At 435 MW, Vizag Steel Plant power station is well above the median other plant in India (103 MW). This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 17.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion 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 #1 largest other power plant of 13 in India by capacity.
India has 13 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,715 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 17.6065, 83.1967 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Vizag Steel Plant power station is a 435 MW source-record other power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India, commissioned in 2015.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 326,622 homes (estimated).
Vizag Steel Plant power station is operated by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
Vizag Steel Plant power station has modelled emissions of about 1,887,400 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
