Wakayama is a 147 MW gas power station in Wakayama, Japan. It is operated by WAKAYAMA KYODO POWER CO INC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 165,564 homes (estimated). It ranks #194 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 591,380 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 137,851 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 32.8% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1020076.
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 WAKAYAMA KYODO POWER CO INC.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.2°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 26% 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: 40/100 — 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.
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 #43 largest gas power plant of 49 in Japan by capacity.
Japan has 49 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 65,031 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 34.2397, 135.128 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
