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Ivanhoe Generation Facility

Other power plant in Louisiana, United States. Approximate location 29.777, -91.736.

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Ivanhoe Generation Facility is a 31 MW other power plant in Louisiana, United States. It is operated by Orion Engineered Carbons LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 23,276 homes (estimated). It ranks #54 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 29,690 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 6,921 cars driven for a year.

31MW installed capacity
23,276homes powered (est.)
29,690t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1309.

29,690 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

6,921passenger cars driven for a year
3,872homes' yearly energy use
494,833tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest other plants in United States

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

Owner

Operated by Orion Engineered Carbons LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.0°Cannual mean temp
637heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,370cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 24 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 21 °CON: 16 °CND: 13 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 74% 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: 22/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #5 largest other power plant of 38 in United States by capacity.

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

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Location

Coordinates 29.777, -91.736 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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