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Jenwu Plant

Coal power plant in Taiwan, Taiwan. Approximate location 22.7016, 120.335.

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Jenwu Plant is a 362 MW coal power station in Taiwan, Taiwan. It is operated by Formosa Plastics Corp. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 453,017 homes (estimated). It ranks #19 of 39 Taiwan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 36.3% of Taiwan's electricity; the national grid averages 633 gCO₂/kWh (13.4% low-carbon) (2025).

362MW installed capacity
453,017homes powered (est.)
1989commissioned (~37 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1075560.

~1,585,560 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

369,594passenger cars driven for a year
206,776homes' yearly energy use
26,426,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Taiwan

Taizhong Taichung: 5,500 MW6kTaizhong T…Mailao: 4,200 MW4kMailaoHsinta (coal): 2,200 MW2kHsinta (co…Ho-Ping power station: 1,296 MW1kHo-Ping po…Jenwu Plant: 362 MW362Jenwu PlantHsinkang SK power station: 361 MW361Hsinkang S…Changhua power station: 271 MW271Changhua p…

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

Owner

Operated by Formosa Plastics Corp. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,431cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
14 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 19 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 25 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 26 °CON: 23 °CND: 20 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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

The #5 largest coal power plant of 7 in Taiwan by capacity.

Taiwan has 7 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 14,190 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 22.7016, 120.335 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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