Coal power plant in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Approximate location 36.1561, 128.1269.
CoalGyeongsangbuk-doSouth KoreaCO₂ reported
Gimcheon CHP power station is a 60 MW coal power plant in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. It is operated by Gimcheon Energy Service Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated). It ranks #132 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 227,530 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 53,037 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 CT-5472.
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 Gimcheon Energy Service Co Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.2°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 12% 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: 56/100 — 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.
The #29 largest coal power plant of 29 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 29 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 39,821 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.1561, 128.1269 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
