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Crawfordsville Power Plant

Coal power plant in Indiana, United States of America. Approximate location 40.0489, -86.8992.

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Crawfordsville Power Plant is a 25 MW coal power plant in Indiana, United States of America. It is operated by Crawfordsville Energy LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 31,160 homes (estimated). It ranks #3471 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1961, it is around 65 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 141 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 33 cars driven for a year. 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).

25MW installed capacity
31,160homes powered (est.)
141t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1961commissioned (~65 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0001024.

141 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

33passenger cars driven for a year
18homes' yearly energy use
2,350tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 0 GWh20191 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Crawfordsville Energy LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
3,094heating degree-days (base 18°C)
405cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
268 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD23 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #266 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 40.0489, -86.8992 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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