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East Hampton Energy Storage Center

Storage power plant in New York, United States of America. Approximate location 40.9618, -72.2099.

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East Hampton Energy Storage Center is a 5 MW storage power plant in New York, United States of America. It is operated by East Hampton Energy Storage Center LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 0 GWh, it can supply roughly -142 homes. It ranks #5731 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. Its measured emissions of 17,931 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 4,180 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

5MW installed capacity
0GWh reported / yr
-142homes powered
17,931t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0062733.

17,931 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

4,180passenger cars driven for a year
2,338homes' yearly energy use
298,850tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by East Hampton Energy Storage Center LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This storage plant stores and releases electricity (pumped-hydro or batteries) to balance the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
2,941heating degree-days (base 18°C)
262cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
14 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 8 °CND: 2 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% 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: 61/100 — 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 #40 largest storage power plant of 104 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 104 storage power plants in this dataset, together about 816 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.9618, -72.2099 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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