Cogeneration power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 37.8069, -121.2775.
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J.R. Simplot Company is a 4 MW cogeneration power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by J.R. Simplot Company. Based on reported annual generation of 12 GWh, it can supply roughly 3,314 homes. It ranks #6516 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1993, it is around 33 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058216.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by J.R. Simplot Company.
This cogeneration plant produces electricity and useful heat together for higher fuel efficiency. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 47% 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: 30/100 — 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.
The #31 largest cogeneration power plant of 34 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 34 cogeneration power plants in this dataset, together about 1,042 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.8069, -121.2775 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
