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Agios Dimitrios power station

Coal power plant in West Macedonia, Greece. Approximate location 40.3941, 21.9256.

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Agios Dimitrios power station is a 1,595 MW coal power station in West Macedonia, Greece. It is operated by PPC. Based on reported annual generation of 6,080 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,737,257 homes. It ranks #1 of 90 Greece power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1988, it is around 38 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 4.7% of Greece's electricity; the national grid averages 315 gCO₂/kWh (49.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,595MW installed capacity
6,080GWh reported / yr
1,737,257homes powered
1988commissioned (~38 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061091.

~6,080,400 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,417,343passenger cars driven for a year
792,958homes' yearly energy use
101,340,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2015: 7,310 GWh20152016: 5,934 GWh20162017: 6,080 GWh20177k GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PPC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.9°Cannual mean temp
2,766heating degree-days (base 18°C)
176cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
871 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 3 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 13% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 56/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #1 largest coal power plant of 6 in Greece by capacity.

Greece has 6 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 4,995 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.3941, 21.9256 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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