Turów is a 1,498 MW coal power station in Saxony, Poland. It is operated by Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA. Based on reported annual generation of 6,746 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,927,342 homes. It ranks #5 of 197 Poland power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 8,432,900 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,965,711 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 50.4% 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 WRI1019036.
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 Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.9°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 44% 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: 77/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #5 largest coal power plant of 75 in Poland by capacity.
Poland has 75 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 31,540 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.9482, 14.9128 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
