Gadsby

Gas power plant in Utah, United States of America. Approximate location 40.7686, -111.9289.

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Gadsby is a 492 MW gas power station in Utah, United States of America. It is operated by PacifiCorp. Based on reported annual generation of 134 GWh, it can supply roughly 38,342 homes. It ranks #745 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1974, it is around 52 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

492MW installed capacity
134GWh reported / yr
38,342homes powered
1974commissioned (~52 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0003648.

~53,680 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

12,513passenger cars driven for a year
7,001homes' yearly energy use
894,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × 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.

Reported generation trend

2013: 340 GWh20132014: 326 GWh20142015: 124 GWh20152016: 121 GWh20162017: 93 GWh20172018: 59 GWh20182019: 134 GWh2019340 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PacifiCorp. 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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.2°Cannual mean temp
2,962heating degree-days (base 18°C)
517cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,364 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 4 °CND: -1 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 62/100 — 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.

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 #445 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.7686, -111.9289 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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