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Chugoku — power plant portfolio

Chugoku operates 8 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 7,543 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 18,483,550 t CO₂/yr.

8power plants
7,543MW total capacity
1countries
18,483,550t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Hydro: 3 plants3HydroCoal: 2 plants2CoalNuclear: 1 plants1NuclearOil: 1 plants1OilGas: 1 plants1Gas

Fleet interpretation

Chugoku is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Japan (8).

The fuel mix by asset count is hydro (3), coal (2), nuclear (1), oil (1). The largest listed asset is Yanai in Japan (1,578 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 965 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 3 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 0 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 8 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
YanaiGasJapan1,5782,347,100
MatanogawaHydroJapan1,200
TamashimaOilJapan1,2001,302,150
Misumi power stationCoalJapan1,000
Shin Onoda power stationCoalJapan1,0003,715,600
ShimaneNuclearJapan820
NabaraHydroJapan620
Shin NariwagawaHydroJapan303

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Chugoku operate?

Chugoku operates 8 power plants across 1 country, with about 7,543 MW of total capacity.

What is Chugoku's largest power plant?

Yanai in Japan is its largest at about 1,578 MW.

What types of power plants does Chugoku run?

Its fleet is mostly hydro (3), coal (2), nuclear (1).

How much CO₂ do Chugoku's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 18,483,550 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology