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Deerhaven Generating Station

Coal power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 29.7592, -82.3878.

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Deerhaven Generating Station is a 471 MW coal power station in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Gainesville Regional Utilities. Based on reported annual generation of 786 GWh, it can supply roughly 224,600 homes. It ranks #755 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1982, it is around 44 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 562,601 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 131,142 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).

471MW installed capacity
786GWh reported / yr
224,600homes powered
562,601t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
1982commissioned (~44 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0000663.

562,601 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

131,142passenger cars driven for a year
73,370homes' yearly energy use
9,376,683tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 837 GWh20132014: 888 GWh20142015: 899 GWh20152016: 761 GWh20162017: 729 GWh20172018: 764 GWh20182019: 786 GWh2019899 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Gainesville Regional Utilities. All plants by this 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 29.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.3°Cannual mean temp
492heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,329cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
41 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 14 °CFM: 17 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 21 °CON: 17 °CND: 14 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 20/100 — 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.

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 #169 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 29.7592, -82.3878 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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