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Hsiehho

Oil power plant in Taiwan, Taiwan. Approximate location 25.1572, 121.7398.

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Hsiehho is a 2,000 MW oil power station in Taiwan, Taiwan. It is operated by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,501,714 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 39 Taiwan power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 1.6% of Taiwan's electricity; the national grid averages 633 gCO₂/kWh (13.4% low-carbon) (2025).

2,000MW installed capacity
1,501,714homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000368.

~3,942,000 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

918,881passenger cars driven for a year
514,085homes' yearly energy use
65,700,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Owner

Operated by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 25.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.8°Cannual mean temp
328heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,360cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
212 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 14 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 22 °CON: 19 °CND: 16 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 87% 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: 18/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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

Taiwan has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 2,000 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 25.1572, 121.7398 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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