Stanwell is a 1,460 MW coal power station in Queensland, Australia. It is operated by Stanwell Corporation Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 8,804 GWh, it can supply roughly 2,515,542 homes. It ranks #8 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 8,262,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,925,944 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 42.7% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000168.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Stanwell Corporation Ltd. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 23.5°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 93% 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: 16/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #7 largest coal power plant of 31 in Australia by capacity.
Australia has 31 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 26,933 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -23.5097, 150.3195 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
