Marbo CT

Oil power plant in Yigo, United States of America. Approximate location 13.5129, 144.872.

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Marbo CT is a 16 MW oil power plant in Yigo, United States of America. It is operated by Guam Power Authority. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,013 homes (estimated). It ranks #4054 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, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

16MW installed capacity
12,013homes powered (est.)
1993commissioned (~33 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029194.

~31,536 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

7,351passenger cars driven for a year
4,113homes' yearly energy use
525,600tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in United States of America

Manatee: 2,951 MW3kManateeOswego Harbor Power: 1,804 MW2kOswego Har…Possum Point: 1,591 MW2kPossum Poi…Canal: 1,495 MW1kCanalAguirre: 1,492 MW1kAguirreCosta Sur: 990 MW990Costa SurYorktown: 882 MW882YorktownSan Juan CC: 864 MW864San Juan CC

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

Owner

Operated by Guam Power Authority. 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 tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 13.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.7°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,183cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
100 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 27 °CND: 26 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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 #250 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 13.5129, 144.872 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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