Bushehr is a 1,000 MW nuclear power station in Bushehr, Iran. It is operated by Nuclear Power Production and Development Company of Iran. Based on reported annual generation of 3,198 GWh, it can supply roughly 913,771 homes. It ranks #18 of 107 Iran power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 1.9% of Iran's electricity; the national grid averages 660 gCO₂/kWh (5.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023916.
Operated by Nuclear Power Production and Development Company of Iran.
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 79% 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: 20/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
Iran has 1 nuclear power plant in this dataset, together about 1,000 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 28.8298, 50.8857 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
