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Shin Toyone

Hydro power plant in Shizuoka, Japan. Approximate location 35.1258, 137.7606.

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Shin Toyone is a 1,125 MW hydro power station in Shizuoka, Japan. It is operated by EPDC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,126,285 homes (estimated). It ranks #80 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 7.2% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,125MW installed capacity
1,126,285homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000723.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Japan

Okutataragi: 1,932 MW2kOkutataragiOkumino: 1,500 MW2kOkuminoOkawachi: 1,280 MW1kOkawachiShin Takasegawa: 1,280 MW1kShin Takas…Okuyoshino: 1,206 MW1kOkuyoshinoMatanogawa: 1,200 MW1kMatanogawaTamahara: 1,200 MW1kTamaharaShin Toyone: 1,125 MW1kShin Toyone

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

Owner

Operated by EPDC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. 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.

12.1°Cannual mean temp
2,503heating degree-days (base 18°C)
366cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
700 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 14 °CON: 9 °CND: 4 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 2% 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: 51/100 — 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 #8 largest hydro power plant of 55 in Japan by capacity.

Japan has 55 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 27,439 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.1258, 137.7606 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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