Tuas South WTE Incineration Plant Singapore is a 80 MW waste power plant in Johor, Singapore. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 110,125 homes (estimated). It ranks #12 of 14 Singapore power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 497 gCO₂/kWh (5.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0005797.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 1.3°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.
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 3 in Singapore by capacity.
Singapore has 3 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 158 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 1.2959, 103.6205 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
