Solar power plant in Jihocesky, Czech Republic. Approximate location 49.1453, 15.0394.
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Otín Solar Power Plant is a 3 MW solar power plant in Jihocesky, Czech Republic. It is operated by Kertak Energy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,446 homes (estimated). It ranks #130 of 472 Czech Republic power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 5.8% of Czech Republic's electricity; the national grid averages 401 gCO₂/kWh (59.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029502.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kertak Energy. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.1°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 59% 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: 83/100 — this site sits in the top 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.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (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 #86 largest solar power plant of 427 in Czech Republic by capacity.
Czech Republic has 427 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,189 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.1453, 15.0394 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
