Lansing Smith

Gas power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 30.2686, -85.7003.

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Lansing Smith is a 662 MW gas power station in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Gulf Power Co. Based on reported annual generation of 3,913 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,118,114 homes. It ranks #543 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 1,602,401 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 373,520 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).

662MW installed capacity
3,913GWh reported / yr
1,118,114homes powered
1,602,401t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
2000commissioned (~26 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0000643.

1,602,401 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

373,520passenger cars driven for a year
208,972homes' yearly energy use
26,706,683tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 4,360 GWh20132014: 4,506 GWh20142015: 4,017 GWh20152016: 3,508 GWh20162017: 4,139 GWh20172018: 4,032 GWh20182019: 3,913 GWh20195k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Gulf Power Co. 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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

19.6°Cannual mean temp
694heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,309cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
15 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 21 °CON: 16 °CND: 12 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 72% 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: 23/100 — 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 #299 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 30.2686, -85.7003 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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