Waste power plant in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Approximate location 37.5813, 126.6464.
WasteGyeonggi-doSouth Korea
Sudokwon is a 50 MW waste power plant in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It is operated by Sudokwon Landfill site management Corporation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 68,828 homes (estimated). It ranks #136 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029924.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Sudokwon Landfill site management Corporation.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.6°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 17% 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: 59/100 — 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.
The #1 largest waste power plant of 4 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 4 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 69 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.5813, 126.6464 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
