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Minden

Other power plant in Louisiana, United States. Approximate location 32.6046, -93.2944.

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Minden is an other power plant in Louisiana, United States. It ranks #125 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1774.

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

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 32.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.6°Cannual mean temp
1,228heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,115cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
80 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 8 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 50% 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: 29/100 — 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

United States has 38 other power plants in this dataset, together about 2,781 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 32.6046, -93.2944 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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