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Barber Creek

Gas power plant in Wyoming, United States. Approximate location 44.1685, -105.8915.

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Barber Creek is a 22 MW gas power plant in Wyoming, United States. It is operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 25,341 homes (estimated). It ranks #62 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 32,694 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 7,621 cars driven for a year.

22MW installed capacity
25,341homes powered (est.)
32,694t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1283.

32,694 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

7,621passenger cars driven for a year
4,264homes' yearly energy use
544,900tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

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

Owner

Operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative.

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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.8°Cannual mean temp
4,222heating degree-days (base 18°C)
157cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,489 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -4 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 11 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 8 °CON: 0 °CND: -5 °CD21 °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

The #48 largest gas power plant of 125 in United States by capacity.

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

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Location

Coordinates 44.1685, -105.8915 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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