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Chambers Cogeneration LP

Coal power plant in New Jersey, United States of America. Approximate location 39.6935, -75.4858.

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Chambers Cogeneration LP is a 285 MW coal power station in New Jersey, United States of America. It is operated by US Operating Services Company. Based on reported annual generation of 565 GWh, it can supply roughly 161,400 homes. It ranks #1000 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

285MW installed capacity
565GWh reported / yr
161,400homes powered
1994commissioned (~32 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010566.

~564,900 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

131,678passenger cars driven for a year
73,670homes' yearly energy use
9,415,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2013: 880 GWh20132014: 919 GWh20142015: 710 GWh20152016: 686 GWh20162017: 636 GWh20172018: 650 GWh20182019: 565 GWh2019919 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by US Operating Services Company.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.4°Cannual mean temp
2,544heating degree-days (base 18°C)
534cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
9 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 14 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 3% 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: 51/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #197 largest coal power plant of 286 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 286 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 249,149 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.6935, -75.4858 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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