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Bob Glanzer Generating Station

Gas power plant in South Dakota, United States. Approximate location 44.3689, -98.1717.

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Bob Glanzer Generating Station is a 69 MW gas power plant in South Dakota, United States. It is operated by NorthWestern Energy Public Service Corp. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 77,713 homes (estimated). It ranks #39 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 100,262 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 23,371 cars driven for a year.

69MW installed capacity
77,713homes powered (est.)
100,262t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1000.

100,262 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

23,371passenger cars driven for a year
13,075homes' yearly energy use
1,671,033tree 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 NorthWestern Energy Public Service Corp.

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-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.6°Cannual mean temp
4,135heating degree-days (base 18°C)
364cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
392 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -10 °CJF: -6 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 9 °CON: 0 °CND: -8 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 68% 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: 86/100 — 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 #35 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 44.3689, -98.1717 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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