Storage power plant in Vermont, United States of America. Approximate location 43.6194, -72.9503.
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Stafford Hill Solar Hybrid is a 4 MW storage power plant in Vermont, United States of America. It is operated by Green Mountain Power Corp. Based on reported annual generation of 2 GWh, it can supply roughly 542 homes. It ranks #6576 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0060518.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Green Mountain Power Corp. All plants by this company →
This storage plant stores and releases electricity (pumped-hydro or batteries) to balance the grid. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.6°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 78% 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: 89/100 — 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.
The #51 largest storage power plant of 104 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 104 storage power plants in this dataset, together about 816 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 43.6194, -72.9503 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
