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Gould Street

Gas power plant in Maryland, United States. Approximate location 39.2663, -76.6047.

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Gould Street is an gas power plant in Maryland, United States. It is operated by Constellation Power Source Generation LLC. It ranks #242 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1960.

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

Owner

Operated by Constellation Power Source Generation LLC. 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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.5°Cannual mean temp
2,310heating degree-days (base 18°C)
696cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
25 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 14 °CON: 9 °CND: 4 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 6% below 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: 48/100 — 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

United States has 125 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,886 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.2663, -76.6047 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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