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Bloomington Solar I

Solar power plant in Utah, United States of America. Approximate location 37.0438, -113.6275.

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Bloomington Solar I is a 2 MW solar power plant in Utah, United States of America. It is operated by Bloomington Solar I. Based on reported annual generation of 4 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,085 homes. It ranks #7756 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. Its measured emissions of 6,699 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,562 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 8.6% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
4GWh reported / yr
1,085homes powered
6,699t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2019commissioned (~7 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0062805.

6,699 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,562passenger cars driven for a year
874homes' yearly energy use
111,650tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2018: 0 GWh20182019: 4 GWh20194 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Bloomington Solar I.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.1°Cannual mean temp
1,940heating degree-days (base 18°C)
913cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,176 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 16 °CON: 9 °CND: 4 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 42/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.9% at warm-season highs here (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 #2013 largest solar power plant of 3283 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 3283 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 37,970 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.0438, -113.6275 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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