Huntington

Coal power plant in Utah, United States of America. Approximate location 39.3792, -111.0781.

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Huntington is a 1,037 MW coal power station in Utah, United States of America. It is operated by PacifiCorp. Based on reported annual generation of 4,898 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,399,285 homes. It ranks #301 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1975, it is around 51 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

1,037MW installed capacity
4,898GWh reported / yr
1,399,285homes powered
1975commissioned (~51 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0008069.

~4,897,500 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,141,608passenger cars driven for a year
638,693homes' yearly energy use
81,625,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 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: 6,766 GWh20132014: 6,301 GWh20142015: 5,988 GWh20152016: 5,504 GWh20162017: 5,400 GWh20172018: 5,088 GWh20182019: 4,898 GWh20197k 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 coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.0°Cannual mean temp
3,555heating degree-days (base 18°C)
294cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,733 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 2 °CND: -4 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 45% 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: 77/100 — 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

The #106 largest coal power plant of 286 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 286 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 249,149 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.3792, -111.0781 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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