EC Bielsko-Biała 1 is a 77 MW gas power plant in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It is operated by PKE S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 86,724 homes (estimated). It ranks #72 of 197 Poland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 161,860 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 37,730 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 14.3% of Poland's electricity; the national grid averages 589 gCO₂/kWh (31.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061514.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PKE S.A.. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.8°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 60% 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: 83/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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.
The #9 largest gas power plant of 14 in Poland by capacity.
Poland has 14 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 1,804 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.8123, 19.0538 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
