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Pleasant Prairie

Other power plant in Wisconsin, United States. Approximate location 42.5381, -87.9033.

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Pleasant Prairie is an other power plant in Wisconsin, United States. It is operated by Wisconsin Electric Power Co. It ranks #103 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1750.

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

Owner

Operated by Wisconsin Electric Power Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.8°Cannual mean temp
3,513heating degree-days (base 18°C)
195cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
177 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 12 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 43% above 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: 76/100 — this site sits in the top 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 42.5381, -87.9033 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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