Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant Slovakia is a 880 MW nuclear power station in Nitriansky, Slovakia. Based on reported annual generation of 7,197 GWh, it can supply roughly 2,056,171 homes. It ranks #2 of 30 Slovakia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 66.4% of Slovakia's electricity; the national grid averages 95 gCO₂/kWh (85.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0004330.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 48.3°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 26% 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: 65/100 — 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.
The #2 largest nuclear power plant of 2 in Slovakia by capacity.
Slovakia has 2 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 1,760 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 48.2621, 18.459 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
