Jones Street

Oil power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. Approximate location 41.2515, -95.9227.

OilNebraskaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Jones Street is a 130 MW oil power station in Nebraska, United States of America. It is operated by Omaha Public Power District. Based on reported annual generation of 3 GWh, it can supply roughly 885 homes. It ranks #1669 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 10,448 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,435 cars driven for a year. 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).

130MW installed capacity
3GWh reported / yr
885homes powered
10,448t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1973commissioned (~53 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002290.

10,448 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,435passenger cars driven for a year
1,363homes' yearly energy use
174,133tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 1 GWh20182019: 3 GWh20193 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Omaha Public Power District. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
3,241heating degree-days (base 18°C)
559cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
322 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 32% 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: 69/100 — 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 #48 largest oil power plant of 876 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 876 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 37,143 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.2515, -95.9227 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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