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Tanner Street Generation

Gas power plant in Massachusetts, United States of America. Approximate location 42.6321, -71.3132.

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Tanner Street Generation is a 85 MW gas power plant in Massachusetts, United States of America. It is operated by Bicent Power. Based on reported annual generation of 13 GWh, it can supply roughly 3,800 homes. It ranks #2145 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2002, it is around 24 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 88,221 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 20,564 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).

85MW installed capacity
13GWh reported / yr
3,800homes powered
88,221t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2002commissioned (~24 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054586.

88,221 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

20,564passenger cars driven for a year
11,505homes' yearly energy use
1,470,350tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 54 GWh20132014: 98 GWh20142015: 140 GWh20152016: 91 GWh20162017: 58 GWh20172018: 37 GWh20182019: 13 GWh2019140 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Bicent Power.

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 humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.4°Cannual mean temp
3,371heating degree-days (base 18°C)
257cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
56 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 2 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 0 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 73/100 — 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.

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 #933 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 42.6321, -71.3132 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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