Lake One

Gas power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 34.1772, -118.3147.

GasCaliforniaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Lake One is a 60 MW gas power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by City of Burbank Water and Power. Based on reported annual generation of 16 GWh, it can supply roughly 4,571 homes. It ranks #2525 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2002, it is around 24 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 87,911 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 20,492 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

60MW installed capacity
16GWh reported / yr
4,571homes powered
87,911t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2002commissioned (~24 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0007987.

87,911 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

20,492passenger cars driven for a year
11,465homes' yearly energy use
1,465,183tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 12 GWh20132014: 7 GWh20142015: 13 GWh20152016: 13 GWh20162017: 15 GWh20172018: 12 GWh20182019: 16 GWh201916 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by City of Burbank Water and Power. 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 warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.6°Cannual mean temp
493heating degree-days (base 18°C)
705cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
141 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 15 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 20 °CON: 17 °CND: 14 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 20/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~3% 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

The #1018 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 34.1772, -118.3147 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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