Sweatt

Gas power plant in Mississippi, United States of America. Approximate location 32.2925, -88.7461.

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Sweatt is a 42 MW gas power plant in Mississippi, United States of America. It is operated by Mississippi Power Co. Based on reported annual generation of 6 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,771 homes. It ranks #2967 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1971, it is around 55 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 60,883 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 14,192 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).

42MW installed capacity
6GWh reported / yr
1,771homes powered
60,883t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1971commissioned (~55 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002048.

60,883 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

14,192passenger cars driven for a year
7,940homes' yearly energy use
1,014,717tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 15 GWh20132014: 9 GWh20142015: 13 GWh20152016: 21 GWh20162017: 4 GWh20172018: 5 GWh20182019: 6 GWh201921 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Mississippi Power Co. 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 32.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.3°Cannual mean temp
1,241heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,002cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
137 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 9 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 50% 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: 29/100 — 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 #1148 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 32.2925, -88.7461 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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