Gas power plant in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. Approximate location 34.8895, 127.7747.
GasJeollanam-doSouth KoreaCO₂ reported
Kwangyang is a 1,071 MW gas power station in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. It is operated by SK Holdings. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,206,252 homes (estimated). It ranks #35 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 1,218,110 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 283,942 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 27.9% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029891.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SK Holdings. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.9°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 6% 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: 48/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% 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.
The #13 largest gas power plant of 46 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 46 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 38,423 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.8895, 127.7747 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
