Berry Cogen

Gas power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 35.093, -119.4436.

GasCaliforniaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Berry Cogen is a 39 MW gas power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by Berry Petroleum Co. Based on reported annual generation of 292 GWh, it can supply roughly 83,514 homes. It ranks #3053 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1987, it is around 39 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 26,157 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 6,097 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

39MW installed capacity
292GWh reported / yr
83,514homes powered
26,157t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1987commissioned (~39 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050170.

26,157 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

6,097passenger cars driven for a year
3,411homes' yearly energy use
435,950tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 303 GWh20132014: 305 GWh20142015: 289 GWh20152016: 310 GWh20162017: 252 GWh20172018: 293 GWh20182019: 292 GWh2019310 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Berry Petroleum Co. All plants by this company →

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 hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.4°Cannual mean temp
1,174heating degree-days (base 18°C)
953cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
364 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 9 °CJF: 11 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 19 °CON: 13 °CND: 8 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 52% 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: 28/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 ~2% 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 #1172 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.093, -119.4436 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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