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Fox Lake

Other power plant in Minnesota, United States. Approximate location 43.6728, -94.7075.

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Fox Lake is an other power plant in Minnesota, United States. It is operated by Interstate Power and Light Co. It ranks #134 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1785.

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

Owner

Operated by Interstate Power and Light Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.3°Cannual mean temp
4,174heating degree-days (base 18°C)
296cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
379 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -10 °CJF: -7 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 0 °CND: -8 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 70% 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: 86/100 — 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.

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

United States has 38 other power plants in this dataset, together about 2,781 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.6728, -94.7075 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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