Other power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 29.3761, -94.9465.
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Texas City Plant Union Carbide is a 45 MW other power plant in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by Union Carbide Corp-Texas City. Based on reported annual generation of 70 GWh, it can supply roughly 20k homes. It ranks #3884 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 467,060 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 109k cars driven for a year. 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 USA0050153.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: Wikidata P2109 nameplate capacity; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 45 MW, Texas City Plant Union Carbide is well above the median other plant in United States of America (22 MW). This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Union Carbide Corp-Texas City.
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.4°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% 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: 21/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #6 largest other power plant of 19 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 19 other power plants in this dataset, together about 681 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 29.3761, -94.9465 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Texas City Plant Union Carbide is a 45 MW source-record other power plant in Texas, United States of America, commissioned in 1996.
Texas City Plant Union Carbide generates about 70 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 20,085 homes.
Texas City Plant Union Carbide is operated by Union Carbide Corp-Texas City.
Texas City Plant Union Carbide has modelled emissions of about 467,060 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
