Wind power plant in Gangwon-do, South Korea. Approximate location 38.0208, 128.4965.
WindGangwon-doSouth Korea
Shinan is a 3 MW wind power plant in Gangwon-do, South Korea. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,552 homes (estimated). It ranks #189 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 0.6% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029932.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.0°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 44% 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: 77/100 — 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 #12 largest wind power plant of 12 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 12 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 401 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.0208, 128.4965 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
