Home / Asia / Japan / Kogasaki Incineration Plant

Kogasaki Incineration Plant

Biomass power plant in Fukuoka, Japan. Approximate location 33.8705, 130.7425.

BiomassFukuokaJapan

Kogasaki Incineration Plant is a 36 MW biomass power plant in Fukuoka, Japan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 49,969 homes (estimated). It ranks #324 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).

36MW installed capacity
49,969homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5349.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in Japan

Fukushima Iwaki Biomass power station: 112 MW112Fukushima …Hyogo Pulp Tanigawa Mill power station: 81 MW81Hyogo Pulp…Oji Materia power station: 80 MW80Oji Materi…Ichihara Yawatafuto power station: 75 MW75Ichihara Y…Iwaki Onahama Biomass power station: 75 MW75Iwaki Onah…Handa (Summit) power station: 75 MW75Handa (Sum…Maeda-Ofunato power station: 75 MW75Maeda-Ofun…Tokushima Tsuda power station: 75 MW75Tokushima …

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

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.2°Cannual mean temp
1,764heating degree-days (base 18°C)
754cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
127 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 7 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 28% 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: 39/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #31 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.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 33.8705, 130.7425 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

Built from open public data; no personal information. Operate this site? Request a correction or removal.