Cogeneration power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 33.8431, -118.2347.
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Dominguez Plant is a 5 MW cogeneration power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by Eco Services Corp.. Based on reported annual generation of 12 GWh, it can supply roughly 3,457 homes. It ranks #5724 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1976, it is around 50 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0052064.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Eco Services Corp.. All plants by this company →
This cogeneration plant produces electricity and useful heat together for higher fuel efficiency. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.8°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 78% 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: 21/100 — 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.
The #28 largest cogeneration power plant of 34 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 34 cogeneration power plants in this dataset, together about 1,042 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 33.8431, -118.2347 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
