Gas power plant in Karlovarsky, Czech Republic. Approximate location 50.2576, 12.6932.
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Vřesová is a 370 MW gas power station in Karlovarsky, Czech Republic. It is operated by Sokolovska Uhlena. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 416,725 homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 472 Czech Republic power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 453,240 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 105,650 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 5.4% of Czech Republic's electricity; the national grid averages 401 gCO₂/kWh (59.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019223.
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 Sokolovska Uhlena.
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 50.3°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 60% 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: 83/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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 #2 largest gas power plant of 3 in Czech Republic by capacity.
Czech Republic has 3 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 1,320 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.2576, 12.6932 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
