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Snuggery

Gas power plant in South Australia, Australia. Approximate location -37.6646, 140.4156.

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Snuggery is a 63 MW gas power plant in South Australia, Australia. It is operated by International Power - GDF Suez Australia. Based on reported annual generation of 1 GWh, it can supply roughly 200 homes. It ranks #210 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 62,324 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 14,528 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 16.4% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

63MW installed capacity
1GWh reported / yr
200homes powered
62,324t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000245.

62,324 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

14,528passenger cars driven for a year
8,128homes' yearly energy use
1,038,733tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 1 GWh20162017: 3 GWh20172018: 1 GWh20183 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by International Power - GDF Suez Australia. 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 warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.2°Cannual mean temp
1,423heating degree-days (base 18°C)
37cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
17 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 19 °CFM: 17 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 11 °CJJ: 10 °CJA: 11 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 13 °CON: 15 °CND: 17 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 42% 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.

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 #78 largest gas power plant of 142 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 142 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 21,303 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -37.6646, 140.4156 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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