Gas power plant in Minnesota, United States. Approximate location 44.4548, -93.0212.
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Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend, LLC is a 73 MW gas power plant in Minnesota, United States. It is operated by Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 82,669 homes (estimated). It ranks #37 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 76,182 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 17,758 cars driven for a year.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1058.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend LLC.
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 44.5°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 75% 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: 88/100 — 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.
The #33 largest gas power plant of 125 in United States by capacity.
United States has 125 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,886 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 44.4548, -93.0212 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
