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Gas power plants in Japan

64 gas power plants in Japan, totalling 71,557 MW of installed capacity — ranked by size, from open data.

#PlantRegionMW
1FuttsuChiba5,334
2Higashi NiigataNiigata4,810
3KawagoeMie4,802
4SodegauraChiba3,600
5Shin NagoyaAichi3,058
6Himeji DainiHyogo2,919
7ChibaChiba2,880
8Shin OitaOita2,295
9Higashi OgishimaKanagawa2,000
10SakaikoOsaka2,000
11Sakai Port power stationOsaka2,000
12GoiChiba1,886
13NankoOsaka1,800
14Shin KokuraFukuoka1,800
15Chita DainiAichi1,708
16YanaiYamaguchi1,578
17KawasakiKanagawa1,500
18Moka power plantTochigi1,248
19YokkaichiMie1,245
20Ohgishima power stationKanagawa1,221
21OhgishimaKanagawa1,221
22Soma Port Gas power stationMiyagi1,180
23KimitsuChiba1,153
24Minami YokohamaKanagawa1,150
25ShinagawaTokyo1,140
26Senboku Natural Gas power plantOsaka1,109
27Shin Sendai thermal power stationMiyagi1,046
28Kashima KyodoIbaraki1,000
29TobataFukuoka892
30Fukuyama Joint power stationOkayama868
31Kawasaki Natural Gas power stationKanagawa847
32Kawasaki CCGTKanagawa840
33Niigata MinatoNiigata700
34Oita Thermal Power PlantOita657
35Oita Co-operative power plantOita657
36Kurashiki Joint power stationOkayama617
37Joetsu power stationNiigata572
38Ishikariwan Shinko power stationHokkaido569
39T-Point 2 power stationHyogo566
40Yoshinoura thermal power plantOkinawa502
41Sendai Tohoku power stationMiyagi468
42Chiba KawatetsuChiba400
43Hachinohe thermal power stationAomori394
44MIZUSHIMA AKCOkayama301
45Mizue Thermal power plantKanagawa276
46Tomakomai power stationHokkaido250
47Tokyo Gas Yokosuka power stationKanagawa240
48YOKOHAMA WORKS KANAZAWAKanagawa239
49Ibaraki power plantIbaraki219
50Rinkai power stationIbaraki181
51Niihama Kita thermal power stationEhime150
52Funamachi power plantOsaka149
53WakayamaWakayama147
54Torishima Energy CenterHyogo140
55CHIBA CHISSOChiba128
56Shin Nakasode power stationChiba112
57Ichihara power plantChiba110
58Naka green power stationTokyo109
59Joetsu Green power stationNiigata109
60Shin-Minato power stationChiba105
61HIROSHIMA ELPIDAHiroshima104
62Tokyo Gas Bay power stationChiba103
63Nakasode Clean power stationChiba100
64Sumitomo Chiba Food Complex cogeneration power stationChiba50

WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Lifecycle and source reconciliation

This page contains 66 positive-capacity records totalling 74,948.8 MW. Lifecycle labels, capacity scope and capacity-quality provenance are kept separate so a source-backed capacity is not mistaken for a verified operating status.

53records with a resolvable source link
13records without a retained record-level link

Lifecycle labels in this page slice

StatusRecords
Construction1
Not Reported8
Operating56
Unclassified1

Capacity provenance quality

Quality labelRecords
current source verified gem operating units 20267
legacy source record not current verified13
source verified gem tracker location 202646

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