Turek power station is a 163 MW gas power station in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is operated by Neo Hybrid Power LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 184k homes (estimated). It ranks #82 of 246 Poland power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 26,726 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 6.2k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 14.3% of Poland's electricity; the national grid averages 589 gCO₂/kWh (31.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_turek_poland.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 163 MW, Turek power station is well above the median gas plant in Poland (141 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Neo Hybrid Power LLC.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #17 largest gas power plant of 37 in Poland by capacity.
Poland has 37 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 8,201 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.01123205, 18.53340729 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Turek power station is a 163 MW gas power plant in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, Announced 2028.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 183,584 homes (estimated).
Turek power station is operated by Neo Hybrid Power LLC.
Turek power station has measured emissions of about 26,726 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
