Gastonia Tulip Drive — United States of America

Gastonia Tulip Drive is a 5.4 MW oil power plant in North Carolina, United States of America. It ranks #6605 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056262.

Data provenance

The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.

capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 5.4 MW, Gastonia Tulip Drive is below the median oil plant in United States of America (7.2 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #535 largest oil power plant of 902 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 902 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 40,022 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Gastonia Prime Power Park · Oil · 11.8 MW · North Carolina
• Gaston Memorial Hospital · Oil · 1.8 MW · North Carolina
• Long Creek Waste Water Plant · Oil · 5.1 MW · North Carolina
• Auten Road Farm LLC · Solar · 5 MW · North Carolina
• Gastonia Solar Center · Solar · 4.3 MW · North Carolina
• Gaston County Renewable Energy Center · Waste · 4.2 MW · North Carolina

Location

Coordinates 35.2891, -81.2052 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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