Hydro power plant in Vysocina, Czech Republic. Approximate location 49.1245, 16.1242.
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Dalešice is a 480 MW hydro power station in Vysocina, Czech Republic. It is operated by CEZ Group. Based on reported annual generation of 503 GWh, it can supply roughly 143,800 homes. It ranks #12 of 472 Czech Republic power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 2.3% of Czech Republic's electricity; the national grid averages 401 gCO₂/kWh (59.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019203.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CEZ Group. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.1°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 37% 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: 73/100 — this site sits in the top 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.
The #2 largest hydro power plant of 8 in Czech Republic by capacity.
Czech Republic has 8 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,827 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.1245, 16.1242 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
