Ishikari Bay power station is a 52 MW biomass power plant in Hokkaido, Japan. It is operated by Ishikari Bio Energy LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 71,581 homes (estimated). It ranks #267 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5357.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Ishikari Bio Energy LLC.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.2°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 55% 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: 82/100 — 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.
The #12 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.
Coordinates 43.1947, 141.2998 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
