Thap Sakae Solar Power Plant is a 5 MW solar power plant in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand. It is operated by Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,127 homes (estimated). It ranks #161 of 196 Thailand power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 5.3% of Thailand's electricity; the national grid averages 546 gCO₂/kWh (16.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1026325.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 11.5°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 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 1.0% 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.
The #107 largest solar power plant of 141 in Thailand by capacity.
Thailand has 141 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,349 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 11.4732, 99.5965 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
