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Palaiochora

Solar power plant in West Greece, Greece. Approximate location 37.9185, 21.426.

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Palaiochora is a 9 MW solar power plant in West Greece, Greece. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,829 homes (estimated). It ranks #55 of 90 Greece power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 22.2% of Greece's electricity; the national grid averages 315 gCO₂/kWh (49.7% low-carbon) (2025).

9MW installed capacity
3,829homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0061373.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Greece

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.2°Cannual mean temp
1,547heating degree-days (base 18°C)
559cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
287 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 9 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 35/100 — 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.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #5 largest solar power plant of 38 in Greece by capacity.

Greece has 38 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 218 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.9185, 21.426 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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