Oil power plant in New Jersey, United States. Approximate location 39.0269, -74.8772.
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Middle Station is an oil power plant in New Jersey, United States. It is operated by Calpine New Jersey Generation LLC. It ranks #142 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1793.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Calpine New Jersey Generation LLC. All plants by this company →
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 39.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 4% 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: 49/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.
United States has 16 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 37 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.0269, -74.8772 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
