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Budge Budge Generating Station — Power plant · Coal
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Budge Budge Generating Station

Power plant · Coal

Key facts

Power plant · Coal Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceGlobal Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses) · Open license, with creditMW
Commissioned
1997
Location
West Bengal, India

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
CESC LtdSource100.0%, Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)

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Technology
Coal source: “coal / subcritical”
Age
29 years since 1997
Units
3
1 attribute from Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)
Attributes
AttributeValue
Gem
Owners
Name
CESC Ltd
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100001000736
Parents
Name
CESC Ltd
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100001000736
Unit ids
G100000101088, G100000101089, G100000101090
Location id
L100000102665
Subnational
West Bengal
Unit statuses
Operating
3
Location accuracy
exact

Timeline

  • In service · GEM

Sources

2 sources

Sources GEM · Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)

Sources

  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)

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