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East Windsor Cogeneration

Gas power plant in Ontario, Canada. Approximate location 42.3258, -83.0005.

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East Windsor Cogeneration is a 92 MW gas power plant in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by SaskPower. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 103,618 homes (estimated). It ranks #259 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. In context, gas supplies about 17.8% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

92MW installed capacity
103,618homes powered (est.)
2009commissioned (~17 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN1060264.

~145,066 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

33,815passenger cars driven for a year
18,918homes' yearly energy use
2,417,760tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Canada

Lennox: 2,000 MW2kLennoxGreenfield Energy Centre: 1,005 MW1kGreenfield…Burrard: 950 MW950BurrardGoreway: 875 MW875GorewayShepard: 873 MW873ShepardHalton Hills: 712 MW712Halton Hil…Queen Elizabeth: 634 MW634Queen Eliz…Portlands: 624 MW624Portlands

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

Owner

Operated by SaskPower. All plants by this company →

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 hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.4°Cannual mean temp
3,417heating degree-days (base 18°C)
310cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
186 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 2 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 39% 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: 74/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #53 largest gas power plant of 75 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 75 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,786 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 42.3258, -83.0005 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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