Oil power plant in Massachusetts, United States of America. Approximate location 41.7694, -70.5097.
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Canal is a 1,495 MW oil power station in Massachusetts, United States of America. It is operated by NRG Canal 3 Development LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 196 GWh, it can supply roughly 55,885 homes. It ranks #152 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1982, it is around 44 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 59,861 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 13,954 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0001599.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by NRG Canal 3 Development LLC.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 26% 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: 65/100 — 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.
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.
The #4 largest oil power plant of 876 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 876 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 37,143 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.7694, -70.5097 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
