Daesan Refinery power station — South Korea

Daesan Refinery power station is a 174.1 MW gas power station in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. It ranks #114 of 216 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 51,697 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 12k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 27.9% 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-5480.

Data provenance

The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.

capacity: Climate TRACE; fuel: Climate TRACE

In context: how this plant compares

At 174.1 MW, Daesan Refinery power station is below the median gas plant in South Korea (515 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

~51,697 t CO₂/yr (modelled) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #66 largest gas power plant of 77 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 77 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 58,006 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Daesan Works · Gas · 131 MW · Chungcheongnam-do
• Daesan Complex power station · Gas · 743.4 MW · Chungcheongnam-do
• Daesan power station · Biomass · 110 MW · Chungcheongnam-do
• Hwaseong · Solar · 1 MW · Chungcheongnam-do
• Dangjin · Coal · 6,040 MW · Chungcheongnam-do
• Taean · Coal · 5,946 MW · Chungcheongnam-do

Location

Coordinates 37.0045, 126.415 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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