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Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant Lithuania

Hydro power plant in Kauno apskritis, Lithuania. Approximate location 54.8741, 24.0.

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Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant Lithuania is a 101 MW hydro power station in Kauno apskritis, Lithuania. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 100,915 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 6 Lithuania power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 3.9% of Lithuania's electricity; the national grid averages 138 gCO₂/kWh (77.6% low-carbon) (2025).

101MW installed capacity
100,915homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0042162.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Lithuania

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

Local climate & thermal context

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 54.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.6°Cannual mean temp
4,132heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
63 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 17 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 7 °CON: 2 °CND: -2 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 68% 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: 86/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #2 largest hydro power plant of 2 in Lithuania by capacity.

Lithuania has 2 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,001 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 54.8741, 24.0 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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