Sun Trust Plaza

Oil power plant in Georgia, United States of America. Approximate location 33.7625, -84.3872.

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Sun Trust Plaza is a 2 MW oil power plant in Georgia, United States of America. It is operated by Sun Trust Plaza Associates LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,802 homes (estimated). It ranks #7539 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
1,802homes powered (est.)
1994commissioned (~32 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054845.

~4,730 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,103passenger cars driven for a year
617homes' yearly energy use
78,840tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 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: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 0 GWh20190 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Sun Trust Plaza Associates LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.5°Cannual mean temp
1,446heating degree-days (base 18°C)
912cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
289 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 7 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 41% 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: 33/100 — 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.

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 #691 largest oil power plant of 876 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 876 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 37,143 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 33.7625, -84.3872 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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