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KRC Cogeneration Plant

Gas power plant in Queensland, Australia. Approximate location -27.4453, 153.1185.

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KRC Cogeneration Plant is a 4 MW gas power plant in Queensland, Australia. It is operated by AGL. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,730 homes (estimated). It ranks #417 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 16.4% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
4,730homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000332.

~6,623 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,544passenger cars driven for a year
864homes' yearly energy use
110,376tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 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 gas plants in Australia

Tomago Aluminium Smelter: 810 MW810Tomago Alu…Torrens Island B: 800 MW800Torrens Is…Colongra: 724 MW724ColongraUranquinty: 664 MW664UranquintyDarling Downs: 644 MW644Darling Do…Pinjar: 576 MW576PinjarMortlake: 566 MW566MortlakeBraemar 2: 519 MW519Braemar 2

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

Owner

Operated by AGL. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 27.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.4°Cannual mean temp
236heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,116cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
9 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 25 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 24 °CMA: 22 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 15 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 20 °CON: 22 °CND: 24 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 90% 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: 17/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~4% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #132 largest gas power plant of 142 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 142 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 21,303 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -27.4453, 153.1185 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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