# How much energy does the Balasore plastic cluster use, and what share is grid power?

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84% of the energy, and more of the carbon. TERI's 2015 profile puts Balasore's 40 or so plastic units at 2,860 toe a year: 27.8 million kWh of grid power, 452 kL of diesel and 36 t of LPG. On FY 2025-26 factors that is about 20,000 t CO2, 93% of it from electricity.

## Where the 2,860 toe come from

- Grid power: 27.8 million kWh, 2,389 toe, 84%.
- Diesel for DG sets: 452 kL, 429 toe, 15%.
- LPG: 36 t, the last 1%.
- About 40 units make 62,600 t a year; six pipe and fittings units use over 60% of the energy.

## How the units are supplied

Most units have an LT connection of about 100 kVA; pipe and sack plants have HT connections of 400 kVA or more. Diesel runs DG sets in outages, which have become uncommon. A few non-woven sack plants fire thermic fluid heaters with oil.

## Why power is 84% of the energy but 93% of the CO2

A kWh off the grid carries the coal burnt at the power station, so each toe of electricity brings about 7.9 t CO2 against about 2.8 t for a toe of diesel. Fewer diesel hours barely move your figure; fewer kWh per tonne do.

## Cluster CO2 on FY 2025-26 factors (estimate)

- Electricity: 27.8 million kWh x 0.675 kg = 18,765 t CO2
- Diesel: 452 kL x 2.645 t = 1,196 t CO2
- LPG: 36 t x 2.98 = 107 t CO2
- Total about 20,070 t, or 0.32 t CO2 per tonne of product
- Electricity's share: 18,765 / 20,070 = 93%

Quantities from TERI's Balasore profile. Grid factor CEA FY 2025-26; fuels IPCC 2006.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads your electricity bills (units, tariff, sanctioned load) and DG diesel invoices into monthly records, so your carbon number per tonne comes from your own meter, not a cluster average.

- [Your MSME carbon number](https://senseible.earth/msme-carbon-number)
- [Balasore: who uses the energy](https://senseible.earth/answers/balasore-pipe-fittings-units-energy-share)
- [Rajkot plastics compared](https://senseible.earth/answers/rajkot-plastic-cluster-electricity-co2)
- [Plastic water tank per unit](https://senseible.earth/answers/plastic-water-tank-carbon-footprint-per-unit)

Sources: [TERI, Cluster profile: Balasore plastic industries (2015)](https://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/Balasore_Plastics_Orissa.pdf), [CEA, CO2 Baseline Database for the Indian Power Sector (grid factor 0.675 kg CO2 per kWh, FY 2025-26)](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-view?mappingId=234&lang=en), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy (fuel emission factors)](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html)

Last reviewed 2026-10-31.