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Fushiki Manyofuto power station

Biomass power plant in Toyama, Japan. Approximate location 36.8009, 137.065.

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Fushiki Manyofuto power station is a 51 MW biomass power plant in Toyama, Japan. It is operated by Prominet Power Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 70,205 homes (estimated). It ranks #270 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 5.3% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).

51MW installed capacity
70,205homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5359.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in Japan

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

Owner

Operated by Prominet Power Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.4°Cannual mean temp
2,319heating degree-days (base 18°C)
649cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
11 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 2 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 16 °CON: 10 °CND: 5 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 6% 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: 48/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #14 largest biomass power plant of 52 in Japan by capacity.

Japan has 52 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,272 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 36.8009, 137.065 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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