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Yeongheung

Wind power plant in Jeju-do, South Korea. Approximate location 33.4397, 126.8349.

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Yeongheung is a 22 MW wind power plant in Jeju-do, South Korea. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 18,721 homes (estimated). It ranks #151 of 204 South Korea power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 0.6% of South Korea's electricity; the national grid averages 417 gCO₂/kWh (40.0% low-carbon) (2025).

22MW installed capacity
18,721homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029935.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in South Korea

Gangwon: 98 MW98GangwonYeong Yang: 62 MW62Yeong YangTaegisan: 40 MW40TaegisanYoungduk: 40 MW40YoungdukSamdal: 33 MW33SamdalJeju Offshore: 30 MW30Jeju Offsh…Yeongheung: 22 MW22YeongheungHangyeong: 21 MW21Hangyeong

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

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.7°Cannual mean temp
1,562heating degree-days (base 18°C)
735cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
5 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 18 °CON: 13 °CND: 8 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 36% 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: 35/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #7 largest wind power plant of 12 in South Korea by capacity.

South Korea has 12 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 401 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 33.4397, 126.8349 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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