Jozankei is a 120 MW hydro power station in Hokkaido, Japan. It is operated by Hydropower and Dams. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 120,137 homes (estimated). It ranks #201 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 7.2% 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 WRI1020235.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Hydropower and Dams.
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.0°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 94% 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: 93/100 — 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 #41 largest hydro power plant of 55 in Japan by capacity.
Japan has 55 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 27,439 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.9871, 141.1562 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
