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McCullough Road Solar Farm

Solar power plant in New Jersey, United States of America. Approximate location 40.7576, -74.9582.

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McCullough Road Solar Farm is a 8 MW solar power plant in New Jersey, United States of America. It is operated by NJR Clean Energy Ventures Corporation. Based on reported annual generation of 6 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,800 homes. It ranks #5036 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 8.6% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

8MW installed capacity
6GWh reported / yr
1,800homes powered
2019commissioned (~7 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0062638.

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

Owner

Operated by NJR Clean Energy Ventures Corporation. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.7°Cannual mean temp
3,241heating degree-days (base 18°C)
251cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
206 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -3 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 0 °CD22 °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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (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 #713 largest solar power plant of 3283 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 3283 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 37,970 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.7576, -74.9582 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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