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Korea Water Resources Corporation — power plant portfolio

Korea Water Resources Corporation operates 18 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 395 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 660,810 t CO₂/yr.

18power plants
395MW total capacity
1countries
660,810t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Hydro: 17 plants17HydroWave and Tidal: 1 plants1Wave and T…

Fleet interpretation

Korea Water Resources Corporation is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is South Korea (18).

The fuel mix by asset count is hydro (17), wave and tidal (1). The largest listed asset is Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant in South Korea (254 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 22 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 0 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 18 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power PlantWave and TidalSouth Korea254
Andong KowacoHydroSouth Korea90
ChangnyeongHamanHydroSouth Korea5
GangcheonHydroSouth Korea5
Hapcheon ChangnyeongHydroSouth Korea5
YeojuHydroSouth Korea5
ChilgokHydroSouth Korea3
Gangjeong GoryeongHydroSouth Korea3
GongjuHydroSouth Korea3
GumiHydroSouth Korea3
IpoHydroSouth Korea3
NakdanHydroSouth Korea3
SangjuHydroSouth Korea3
DalseongHydroSouth Korea3
BaekjeHydroSouth Korea3
SejongHydroSouth Korea2
JuksanHydroSouth Korea1
SeungchonHydroSouth Korea1

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 Korea Water Resources Corporation operate?

Korea Water Resources Corporation operates 18 power plants across 1 country, with about 395 MW of total capacity.

What is Korea Water Resources Corporation's largest power plant?

Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant in South Korea is its largest at about 254 MW.

What types of power plants does Korea Water Resources Corporation run?

Its fleet is mostly hydro (17), wave and tidal (1).

How much CO₂ do Korea Water Resources Corporation's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 660,810 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

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