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WANAKBORI

Coal power plant in Gujarat, India. Approximate location 22.8725, 73.3588.

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WANAKBORI is a 1,470 MW coal power station in Gujarat, India. It is operated by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 7,582 GWh, it can supply roughly 2,166,371 homes. It ranks #67 of 1,908 India power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1986, it is around 40 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 10,316,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,404,825 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).

1,470MW installed capacity
7,582GWh reported / yr
2,166,371homes powered
10,316,700t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1986commissioned (~40 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id IND0000507.

10,316,700 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,404,825passenger cars driven for a year
1,345,423homes' yearly energy use
171,945,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2014: 6,754 GWh20142015: 5,162 GWh20152016: 3,540 GWh20162017: 7,018 GWh20172018: 7,582 GWh20188k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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 22.9°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)
3,327cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
76 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 20 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 27 °CMA: 31 °CAM: 34 °CMJ: 32 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 24 °CND: 21 °CD34 °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 #59 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 22.8725, 73.3588 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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