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Shin Nagoya

Gas power plant in Aichi, Japan. Approximate location 35.0645, 136.8767.

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Shin Nagoya is a 3,058 MW gas power station in Aichi, Japan. It is operated by Chubu. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,444,181 homes (estimated). It ranks #17 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 32.8% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).

3,058MW installed capacity
3,444,181homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000639.

~4,821,854 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,123,975passenger cars driven for a year
628,828homes' yearly energy use
80,364,240tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Japan

Futtsu: 5,040 MW5kFuttsuHigashi Niigata: 4,810 MW5kHigashi Ni…Kawagoe: 4,802 MW5kKawagoeSodegaura: 3,600 MW4kSodegauraShin Nagoya: 3,058 MW3kShin NagoyaChiba: 2,880 MW3kChibaShin Oita: 2,295 MW2kShin OitaHigashi Ogishima: 2,000 MW2kHigashi Og…

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

Owner

Operated by Chubu. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.5°Cannual mean temp
1,713heating degree-days (base 18°C)
822cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
20 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 7 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 30% 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: 38/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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 gas power plant of 49 in Japan by capacity.

Japan has 49 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 65,031 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.0645, 136.8767 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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