Gas power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 52.5104, -0.6814.
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Corby is a 401 MW gas power station in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Corby Power Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 451,640 homes (estimated). It ranks #60 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 6,647 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 1,549 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 31.1% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR1000077.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Corby Power Ltd.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.5°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.
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.
The #32 largest gas power plant of 55 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 55 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 29,916 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.5104, -0.6814 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
