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Crockett Cogen Project

Gas power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 38.0569, -122.2161.

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Crockett Cogen Project is a 247 MW gas power station in California, United States of America. It is operated by Crockett Cogeneration. Based on reported annual generation of 1,530 GWh, it can supply roughly 437,057 homes. It ranks #1096 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 256,360 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 59,758 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

247MW installed capacity
1,530GWh reported / yr
437,057homes powered
256,360t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1996commissioned (~30 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0055084.

256,360 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

59,758passenger cars driven for a year
33,432homes' yearly energy use
4,272,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 1,581 GWh20132014: 1,802 GWh20142015: 1,672 GWh20152016: 1,399 GWh20162017: 1,384 GWh20172018: 1,373 GWh20182019: 1,530 GWh20192k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Crockett Cogeneration.

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 Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.1°Cannual mean temp
1,325heating degree-days (base 18°C)
290cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
131 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 11 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 9 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 46% below 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: 31/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #636 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 38.0569, -122.2161 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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