Oil power plant in Ulsan, South Korea. Approximate location 35.4754, 129.3812.
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Ulsan is a 3,000 MW oil power station in Ulsan, South Korea. It is operated by Korea East West Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,252,571 homes (estimated). It ranks #12 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 5,295,500 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,234,382 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 1.0% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000209.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Korea East West Power. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.5°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 22% 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: 42/100 — 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 oil power plant of 4 in South Korea by capacity.
South Korea has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 4,677 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 35.4754, 129.3812 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
