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Hallim Complex power station

Other power plant in Jeju-do, South Korea. Approximate location 33.4028, 126.2723.

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Hallim Complex power station is a 105 MW other power station in Jeju-do, South Korea. It is operated by Korea Southern Power Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 78,840 homes (estimated). It ranks #120 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 135,840 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 31,664 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).

105MW installed capacity
78,840homes powered (est.)
135,840t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5477.

135,840 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

31,664passenger cars driven for a year
17,715homes' yearly energy use
2,264,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest other plants in South Korea

Dangjin Combined Cycle power station: 2,406 MW2kDangjin Co…Pocheon power station: 1,450 MW1kPocheon po…Tongyeong power station: 1,090 MW1kTongyeong …Yeoju Complex power station: 1,000 MW1kYeoju Comp…Pohang Works: 982 MW982Pohang Wor…Seoul power station: 800 MW800Seoul powe…Daesan Complex power station: 743 MW743Daesan Com…Yangju CHP power station: 524 MW524Yangju CHP…

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

Owner

Operated by Korea Southern Power Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.0°Cannual mean temp
1,978heating degree-days (base 18°C)
541cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
321 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 16 °CON: 11 °CND: 6 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% 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: 43/100 — 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 #26 largest other power plant of 28 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 28 other power plants in this dataset, together about 14,212 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 33.4028, 126.2723 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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