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Smorgon

Solar power plant in Grodnenskaya, Belarus. Approximate location 54.41, 26.48.

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Smorgon is a 19 MW solar power plant in Grodnenskaya, Belarus. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 7,956 homes (estimated). It ranks #19 of 24 Belarus power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 0.8% of Belarus's electricity; the national grid averages 309 gCO₂/kWh (41.4% low-carbon) (2025).

19MW installed capacity
7,956homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0069844.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Belarus

Blizhnyaya Rechitsa 2: 109 MW109Blizhnyaya…Blizhnyaya Rechitsa: 55 MW55Blizhnyaya…Smorgon: 19 MW19SmorgonBrahin: 18 MW18BrahinElsk: 16 MW16ElskChechevicy: 11 MW11ChechevicyBragin EP: 4 MW4Bragin EP

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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.4°Cannual mean temp
4,588heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
211 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -5 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 5 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 16 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 11 °CSO: 6 °CON: 1 °CND: -4 °CD16 °C

Heating degree-days here run 87% 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: 91/100 — 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.

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 #3 largest solar power plant of 7 in Belarus by capacity.

Belarus has 7 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 233 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 54.41, 26.48 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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