EC Zielona Góra is a 198 MW gas power station in Lubusz, Poland. It is operated by Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA. Based on reported annual generation of 934 GWh, it can supply roughly 267k homes. It ranks #72 of 246 Poland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1974, it is around 52 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its modelled annual emissions are 746,180 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 174k 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 WRI1019067.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 tracker 2026 (location L100000400582); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 198 MW, EC Zielona Góra is well above the median gas plant in Poland (141 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA. 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 temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.0°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.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #15 largest gas power plant of 37 in Poland by capacity.
Poland has 37 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 8,201 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.9514, 15.4879 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
EC Zielona Góra is a 198 MW source-record gas power plant in Lubusz, Poland, commissioned in 1974.
EC Zielona Góra generates about 934 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 266,828 homes.
EC Zielona Góra is operated by Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA.
EC Zielona Góra has modelled emissions of about 746,180 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
