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Northside Generating Station

Coal power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 30.4172, -81.5525.

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Northside Generating Station is a 1,407 MW coal power station in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by JEA. Based on reported annual generation of 3,878 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,108,057 homes. It ranks #173 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 2,848,147 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 663,904 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

1,407MW installed capacity
3,878GWh reported / yr
1,108,057homes powered
2,848,147t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
1973commissioned (~53 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0000667.

2,848,147 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

663,904passenger cars driven for a year
371,433homes' yearly energy use
47,469,117tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 2,771 GWh20132014: 3,709 GWh20142015: 3,788 GWh20152016: 4,733 GWh20162017: 2,870 GWh20172018: 4,278 GWh20182019: 3,878 GWh20195k GWh

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

Owner

Operated by JEA. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.6°Cannual mean temp
480heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,448cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
9 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 14 °CFM: 17 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 24 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 22 °CON: 18 °CND: 14 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 20/100 — 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 #71 largest coal power plant of 286 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 286 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 249,149 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 30.4172, -81.5525 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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