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Austin Northeast

Gas power plant in Minnesota, United States. Approximate location 43.7014, -92.9626.

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Austin Northeast is an gas power plant in Minnesota, United States. It ranks #135 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1786.

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

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.1°Cannual mean temp
4,229heating degree-days (base 18°C)
262cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
370 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -11 °CJF: -7 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 9 °CON: 0 °CND: -8 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 72% 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: 87/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

United States has 125 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,886 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.7014, -92.9626 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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