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Chiang Rai Solar Power Plant

Solar power plant in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Approximate location 20.1684, 100.0202.

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Chiang Rai Solar Power Plant is a 10 MW solar power plant in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It is operated by Chiangrai Solar Company Limited. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,042 homes (estimated). It ranks #75 of 196 Thailand power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 5.3% of Thailand's electricity; the national grid averages 546 gCO₂/kWh (16.6% low-carbon) (2025).

10MW installed capacity
4,042homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1026235.

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

Owner

Operated by Chiangrai Solar Company Limited. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 20.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.3°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,669cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
426 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 28 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 26 °CON: 23 °CND: 21 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 1.2% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #22 largest solar power plant of 141 in Thailand by capacity.

Thailand has 141 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,349 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 20.1684, 100.0202 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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