McManus

Oil power plant in Georgia, United States of America. Approximate location 31.2136, -81.5462.

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McManus is a 560 MW oil power station in Georgia, United States of America. It is operated by Georgia Power Co. Based on reported annual generation of 10 GWh, it can supply roughly 2,742 homes. It ranks #666 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1972, it is around 54 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 367,800 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 85,734 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).

560MW installed capacity
10GWh reported / yr
2,742homes powered
367,800t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1972commissioned (~54 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0000715.

367,800 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

85,734passenger cars driven for a year
47,966homes' yearly energy use
6,130,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: -2 GWh20132014: 7 GWh20142015: 1 GWh20152016: 6 GWh20162017: 11 GWh20172018: 10 GWh20182019: 10 GWh201911 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Georgia Power Co. 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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

19.9°Cannual mean temp
646heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,365cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 21 °CON: 17 °CND: 13 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 74% 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: 22/100 — 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 #16 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 31.2136, -81.5462 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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