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Mok-Dong Yangcheon power station

Biomass power plant in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Approximate location 37.54, 126.8841.

BiomassGyeonggi-doSouth Korea

Mok-Dong Yangcheon power station is a 22 MW biomass power plant in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It is operated by Seoul Energy Corp. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 30,284 homes (estimated). It ranks #152 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 3.2% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).

22MW installed capacity
30,284homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5503.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in South Korea

Dangjin Bio power station: 210 MW210Dangjin Bi…Daesan power station: 110 MW110Daesan pow…Bugok Biomass: 105 MW105Bugok Biom…SGC Green Power power station: 100 MW100SGC Green …Poseung power station: 43 MW43Poseung po…Gangnam CHP power station: 40 MW40Gangnam CH…Seokmun power station: 39 MW39Seokmun po…Nowon Cogen power station: 37 MW37Nowon Coge…

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

Owner

Operated by Seoul Energy Corp. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.3°Cannual mean temp
2,984heating degree-days (base 18°C)
548cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
127 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 13 °CON: 6 °CND: -1 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 62/100 — 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 #11 largest biomass power plant of 21 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 21 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 844 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.54, 126.8841 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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