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Archer Daniels Midland Lincoln

Coal power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. Approximate location 40.8665, -96.6145.

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Archer Daniels Midland Lincoln is a 8 MW coal power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. It is operated by Archer Daniels Midland Co. Based on reported annual generation of 27 GWh, it can supply roughly 7,685 homes. It ranks #4999 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1988, it is around 38 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

8MW installed capacity
27GWh reported / yr
7,685homes powered
1988commissioned (~38 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010862.

~26,900 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

6,270passenger cars driven for a year
3,508homes' yearly energy use
448,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 27 GWh201927 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Archer Daniels Midland Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.7°Cannual mean temp
3,198heating degree-days (base 18°C)
564cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
400 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 30% 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: 68/100 — 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.

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 #272 largest coal power plant of 286 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 286 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 249,149 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.8665, -96.6145 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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