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Grajówka

Hydro power plant in Lubusz, Poland. Approximate location 51.6725, 15.2919.

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Grajówka is a 3 MW hydro power plant in Lubusz, Poland. It is operated by PGE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,003 homes (estimated). It ranks #174 of 197 Poland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1922, it is around 104 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 1.0% of Poland's electricity; the national grid averages 589 gCO₂/kWh (31.5% low-carbon) (2025).

3MW installed capacity
3,003homes powered (est.)
1922commissioned (~104 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061536.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Poland

Żarnowiec: 716 MW716ŻarnowiecPorąbka-Żar: 540 MW540Porąbka-ŻarSolina: 198 MW198SolinaWłocławek: 160 MW160WłocławekŻydowo: 157 MW157ŻydowoNiedzica: 93 MW93NiedzicaDychów: 88 MW88DychówDębe: 21 MW21Dębe

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

Owner

Operated by PGE. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.6°Cannual mean temp
3,407heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
133 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 9 °CON: 4 °CND: 0 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 39% 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: 74/100 — 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.

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 #18 largest hydro power plant of 32 in Poland by capacity.

Poland has 32 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,078 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.6725, 15.2919 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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