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Duc Minh

Solar power plant in Quang Ngai, Vietnam. Approximate location 14.96, 108.932.

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Duc Minh is a 19 MW solar power plant in Quang Ngai, Vietnam. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,126 homes (estimated). It ranks #145 of 236 Vietnam power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 7.4% of Vietnam's electricity; the national grid averages 461 gCO₂/kWh (45.4% low-carbon) (2025).

19MW installed capacity
8,126homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0066206.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Vietnam

Dau Tieng: 420 MW420Dau TiengPhước Nam: 330 MW330Phước NamThuan Bac: 204 MW204Thuan BacNinh Thuận CMX: 168 MW168Ninh Thuận…Cam An Bac VN: 63 MW63Cam An Bac…Cam An Bac KN: 62 MW62Cam An Bac…Chau Duc: 57 MW57Chau DucCam Ranh: 50 MW50Cam Ranh

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 15.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.3°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,030cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
8 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 22 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 29 °CMJ: 30 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 26 °CON: 25 °CND: 23 °CD30 °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 1.6% 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 #14 largest solar power plant of 16 in Vietnam by capacity.

Vietnam has 16 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,616 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 14.96, 108.932 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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