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Cardinal

Gas power plant in New York, Canada. Approximate location 44.7846, -75.3779.

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Cardinal is a 156 MW gas power station in New York, Canada. It is operated by Cardinal Power LP. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 176,038 homes (estimated). It ranks #163 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 254,600 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 59,347 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 17.8% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

156MW installed capacity
176,038homes powered (est.)
254,600t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0002035.

254,600 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

59,347passenger cars driven for a year
33,203homes' yearly energy use
4,243,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Canada

Lennox: 2,000 MW2kLennoxGreenfield Energy Centre: 1,005 MW1kGreenfield…Burrard: 950 MW950BurrardGoreway: 875 MW875GorewayShepard: 873 MW873ShepardHalton Hills: 712 MW712Halton Hil…Queen Elizabeth: 634 MW634Queen Eliz…Portlands: 624 MW624Portlands

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Cardinal Power LP.

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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.3°Cannual mean temp
4,366heating degree-days (base 18°C)
128cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
98 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -10 °CJF: -8 °CFM: -2 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 8 °CON: 2 °CND: -6 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 78% 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: 89/100 — 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 #36 largest gas power plant of 75 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 75 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,786 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.7846, -75.3779 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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