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Kansai — power plant portfolio

Kansai operates 21 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 32,181 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 21,883,680 t CO₂/yr.

21power plants
32,181MW total capacity
1countries
21,883,680t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Oil: 5 plants5OilGas: 5 plants5GasHydro: 4 plants4HydroNuclear: 3 plants3NuclearCoal: 2 plants2CoalSolar: 1 plants1SolarBiomass: 1 plants1Biomass

Fleet interpretation

Kansai is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Japan (21).

The fuel mix by asset count is oil (5), gas (5), hydro (4), nuclear (3). The largest listed asset is Ohi in Japan (4,710 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 1,593 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 8 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 21 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
OhiNuclearJapan4,710
TakahamaNuclearJapan3,392
Himeji DainiGasJapan2,9194,341,700
KainanOilJapan2,100
SakaikoGasJapan2,000
Sakai Port power stationGasJapan2,0002,974,700
OkutataragiHydroJapan1,932
GoboOilJapan1,800662,260
Maizuru power stationCoalJapan1,8005,759,600
NankoGasJapan1,8004,283,700
Himeji DaiichiGasJapan1,4421,891,000
OkawachiHydroJapan1,280
OkuyoshinoHydroJapan1,206
AkoOilJapan1,200
Tanagawa DainiOilJapan1,200
AioiOilJapan1,125892,440
MihamaNuclearJapan826
KisenyamaHydroJapan466
Kansai Sendai power stationCoalJapan112416,020
Fukushima Iwaki Biomass power stationBiomassJapan112
Sakai Solar Power PlantSolarJapan28

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 Kansai operate?

Kansai operates 21 power plants across 1 country, with about 32,181 MW of total capacity.

What is Kansai's largest power plant?

Ohi in Japan is its largest at about 4,710 MW.

What types of power plants does Kansai run?

Its fleet is mostly oil (5), gas (5), hydro (4).

How much CO₂ do Kansai's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 21,883,680 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

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