Rio

Rio is a 11 MW hydro power plant in New York, United States of America. It is operated by Eagle Creek RE LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 34 GWh, it can supply roughly 9,685 homes. It ranks #4490 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1934, it is around 92 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).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002631.

Reported generation trend

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

Owner

Operated by Eagle Creek RE LLC. 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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.5°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 46% 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: 78/100 — 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

The #626 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.

Nearby power plants

• Mongaup · Hydro · 7 MW · New York
• Swinging Bridge 2 · Hydro · 8 MW · New York
• Greenville CSG · Solar · 2 MW · New York
• Mount Hope East · Solar · 2 MW · New York
• Westtown CSG · Solar · 2 MW · New York
• Columbia University - Minisink · Solar · 2 MW · New York

Location

Coordinates 41.4625, -74.7578 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.