Remington

Gas power plant in Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 38.5442, -77.7714.

GasVirginiaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Remington is a 706 MW gas power station in Virginia, United States of America. It is operated by Virginia Electric & Power Co. Based on reported annual generation of 294 GWh, it can supply roughly 84,114 homes. It ranks #496 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 165,781 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 38,644 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

706MW installed capacity
294GWh reported / yr
84,114homes powered
165,781t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
2000commissioned (~26 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0007838.

165,781 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

38,644passenger cars driven for a year
21,620homes' yearly energy use
2,763,017tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 595 GWh20132014: 448 GWh20142015: 891 GWh20152016: 667 GWh20162017: 509 GWh20172018: 954 GWh20182019: 294 GWh2019954 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Virginia Electric & Power Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.1°Cannual mean temp
2,340heating degree-days (base 18°C)
560cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
99 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 14 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 5% 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: 48/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #259 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 38.5442, -77.7714 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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