Rubart

Gas power plant in Kansas, United States of America. Approximate location 37.5586, -101.0994.

GasKansasUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Rubart is a 120 MW gas power station in Kansas, United States of America. It is operated by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. Based on reported annual generation of 23 GWh, it can supply roughly 6,600 homes. It ranks #1745 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 174,370 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 40,646 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).

120MW installed capacity
23GWh reported / yr
6,600homes powered
174,370t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2014commissioned (~12 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058255.

174,370 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

40,646passenger cars driven for a year
22,740homes' yearly energy use
2,906,167tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2014: 9 GWh20142015: 40 GWh20152016: 37 GWh20162017: 31 GWh20172018: 26 GWh20182019: 23 GWh201940 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.5°Cannual mean temp
2,655heating degree-days (base 18°C)
662cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
908 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 13 °CON: 5 °CND: 1 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 8% 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: 53/100 — 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 #830 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 37.5586, -101.0994 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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