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Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration

Gas power plant in New York, United States of America. Approximate location 40.6994, -73.9764.

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration is a 322 MW gas power station in New York, United States of America. It is operated by Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogen PLP. Based on reported annual generation of 1,892 GWh, it can supply roughly 540,628 homes. It ranks #911 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 955,561 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 222,741 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).

322MW installed capacity
1,892GWh reported / yr
540,628homes powered
955,561t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
1996commissioned (~30 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054914.

955,561 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

222,741passenger cars driven for a year
124,617homes' yearly energy use
15,926,017tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 1,940 GWh20132014: 2,052 GWh20142015: 1,956 GWh20152016: 2,089 GWh20162017: 1,965 GWh20172018: 2,041 GWh20182019: 1,892 GWh20192k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogen PLP.

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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.0°Cannual mean temp
2,659heating degree-days (base 18°C)
489cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
9 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 13 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 8% 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: 53/100 — 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.

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 #556 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 40.6994, -73.9764 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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