Stryker Creek

Gas power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 31.9398, -94.9898.

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Stryker Creek is a 713 MW gas power station in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by Luminant Generation Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 253 GWh, it can supply roughly 72,342 homes. It ranks #487 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1964, it is around 62 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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).

713MW installed capacity
253GWh reported / yr
72,342homes powered
1964commissioned (~62 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0003504.

~101,280 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

23,608passenger cars driven for a year
13,208homes' yearly energy use
1,688,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 174 GWh20152016: 130 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 115 GWh20182019: 253 GWh2019253 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Luminant Generation Company LLC. 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 31.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.3°Cannual mean temp
1,080heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,208cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
114 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 18 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 19 °CON: 13 °CND: 9 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 56% 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: 27/100 — 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 ~2% 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 #252 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 31.9398, -94.9898 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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