Donghae power station — South Korea

Donghae power station is a 400 MW coal power station in Gangwon-do, South Korea. It ranks #90 of 216 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 1,796,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 419k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 31.1% 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 WRI1075820.

Data provenance

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 · 2026 · L100000103460; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 400 MW, Donghae power station is around the median coal plant in South Korea (400 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

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

~1,796,300 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 #17 largest coal power plant of 34 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 34 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,928 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Donghae PV · Solar · 1.4 MW · Gangwon-do
• Bukpyung power station · Coal · 1,190 MW · Gangwon-do
• Samcheok Anthracite power station · Coal · 100 MW · Gangwon
• Samcheok Blue power station · Coal · 1,050 MW · Gangwon-do
• Daejin nuclear power plant · Nuclear · 3,000 MW · Gangwon
• Taebaek Wind park · Wind · 18 MW · Gangwon-do

Location

Coordinates 37.4863, 129.1473 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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