Oil power plant in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. Approximate location 36.605, 127.4432.
OilChungcheongbuk-doSouth KoreaCO₂ modelled
Cheongju CHP plant is a 58 MW oil power plant in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. It is operated by Korea District Heating Corp. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 44k homes (estimated). It ranks #147 of 216 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. Its modelled annual emissions are 18,964 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 4.4k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 1.0% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5481.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000408493); fuel: GEM wiki unit-level operating Fuel(s), fetched 2026-07-05
At 58 MW, Cheongju CHP plant is below the median oil plant in South Korea (228 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Korea District Heating Corp. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.6°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 25% 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: 64/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #4 largest oil power plant of 5 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 5 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 4,708 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.605, 127.4432 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Cheongju CHP plant is a 58 MW source-record oil power plant in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, commissioned in 2001.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 43,774 homes (estimated).
Cheongju CHP plant is operated by Korea District Heating Corp.
Cheongju CHP plant has modelled emissions of about 18,964 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
