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Anan

Oil power plant in Tokushima, Japan. Approximate location 33.8787, 134.6534.

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Anan is a 1,245 MW oil power station in Tokushima, Japan. It is operated by Shikoku. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 934,817 homes (estimated). It ranks #60 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 248,330 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 57,886 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 2.5% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,245MW installed capacity
934,817homes powered (est.)
248,330t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000663.

248,330 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

57,886passenger cars driven for a year
32,385homes' yearly energy use
4,138,833tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Japan

Hirono: 4,400 MW4kHironoKashima: 4,400 MW4kKashimaChita: 3,966 MW4kChitaAnegasaki: 3,600 MW4kAnegasakiYokohama: 3,325 MW3kYokohamaYokosuka: 2,274 MW2kYokosukaKainan: 2,100 MW2kKainanAtsumi: 1,900 MW2kAtsumi

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Shikoku. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.9°Cannual mean temp
1,525heating degree-days (base 18°C)
768cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
121 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 18 °CON: 13 °CND: 9 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 38% below 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: 34/100 — 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 #12 largest oil power plant of 37 in Japan by capacity.

Japan has 37 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 45,972 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 33.8787, 134.6534 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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