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Songdo CHP power station

Other power plant in Incheon, South Korea. Approximate location 37.3705, 126.6403.

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Songdo CHP power station is a 187 MW other power station in Incheon, South Korea. It is operated by Incheon Total Energy Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 140,635 homes (estimated). It ranks #102 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 255,430 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 59,541 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).

187MW installed capacity
140,635homes powered (est.)
255,430t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5469.

255,430 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

59,541passenger cars driven for a year
33,311homes' yearly energy use
4,257,167tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest other plants in South Korea

Dangjin Combined Cycle power station: 2,406 MW2kDangjin Co…Pocheon power station: 1,450 MW1kPocheon po…Tongyeong power station: 1,090 MW1kTongyeong …Yeoju Complex power station: 1,000 MW1kYeoju Comp…Pohang Works: 982 MW982Pohang Wor…Seoul power station: 800 MW800Seoul powe…Daesan Complex power station: 743 MW743Daesan Com…Yangju CHP power station: 524 MW524Yangju CHP…

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

Owner

Operated by Incheon Total Energy Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.6°Cannual mean temp
2,911heating degree-days (base 18°C)
602cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
25 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 14 °CON: 6 °CND: -1 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 18% 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: 60/100 — 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 #18 largest other power plant of 28 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 28 other power plants in this dataset, together about 14,212 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.3705, 126.6403 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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