Coal power plant in Plzensky, Czech Republic. Approximate location 49.7395, 13.3455.
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Plzenska energetika ELU III is a 65 MW coal power plant in Plzensky, Czech Republic. It is operated by Plzenska Energetika As. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 81,342 homes (estimated). It ranks #36 of 472 Czech Republic power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1972, it is around 54 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 270,560 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 63,068 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 35.2% 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 WRI1075827.
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 Plzenska Energetika As.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.7°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 54% 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: 81/100 — 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.
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 #24 largest coal power plant of 26 in Czech Republic by capacity.
Czech Republic has 26 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 8,903 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.7395, 13.3455 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
