Cogeneration power plant in North Carolina, United States of America. Approximate location 35.3763, -76.7799.
CogenerationNorth CarolinaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported
PCS Phosphate is a 54 MW cogeneration power plant in North Carolina, United States of America. It is operated by PCS Phosphate. Based on reported annual generation of 213 GWh, it can supply roughly 60,828 homes. It ranks #2642 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1985, it is around 41 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 51,716 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 12,055 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050509.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PCS Phosphate.
This cogeneration plant produces electricity and useful heat together for higher fuel efficiency. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.4°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 43% 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: 32/100 — 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.
The #6 largest cogeneration power plant of 34 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 34 cogeneration power plants in this dataset, together about 1,042 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 35.3763, -76.7799 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
