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Yabukinakajima Solar Power Plant

Solar power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Approximate location 37.1596, 140.3583.

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Yabukinakajima Solar Power Plant is a 8 MW solar power plant in Fukushima, Japan. It is operated by Eurus Yabukinakajima Solar Park. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,403 homes (estimated). It ranks #536 of 659 Japan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 9.8% of Japan's electricity; the national grid averages 477 gCO₂/kWh (32.7% low-carbon) (2025).

8MW installed capacity
3,403homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1026594.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Japan

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Eurus Yabukinakajima Solar Park.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.0°Cannual mean temp
2,818heating degree-days (base 18°C)
299cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
369 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 13 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 15% 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: 57/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #213 largest solar power plant of 324 in Japan by capacity.

Japan has 324 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 5,687 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.1596, 140.3583 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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