Ozark

Hydro power plant in Arkansas, United States of America. Approximate location 35.4693, -93.8175.

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Ozark is a 100 MW hydro power station in Arkansas, United States of America. It is operated by USCE-Little Rock District. Based on reported annual generation of 90 GWh, it can supply roughly 25,571 homes. It ranks #1971 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. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 5.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

100MW installed capacity
90GWh reported / yr
25,571homes powered
1973commissioned (~53 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0006142.

Reported generation trend

2013: 93 GWh20132014: 42 GWh20142015: 129 GWh20152016: 104 GWh20162017: 177 GWh20172018: 214 GWh20182019: 90 GWh2019214 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by USCE-Little Rock District. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.6°Cannual mean temp
1,803heating degree-days (base 18°C)
953cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
148 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 16 °CON: 10 °CND: 5 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 27% 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: 40/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #191 largest hydro power plant of 1449 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1449 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 101,657 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.4693, -93.8175 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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