Oil power plant in Missouri, United States of America. Approximate location 40.0786, -93.635.
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Trenton North is a 14 MW oil power plant in Missouri, United States of America. It is operated by Trenton Municipal Utilities - (MO). Based on reported annual generation of 0 GWh, it can supply roughly 28 homes. It ranks #4246 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1974, it is around 52 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 8,867 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,067 cars driven for a year. 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0000698.
At 14 MW, Trenton North is well above the median oil plant in United States of America (7 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Trenton Municipal Utilities - (MO). All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.1°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 20% 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: 61/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.
The #283 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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Coordinates 40.0786, -93.635 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
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Trenton North is a 14 MW oil power plant in Missouri, United States of America, commissioned in 1974.
Trenton North generates about 0 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 28 homes.
Trenton North is operated by Trenton Municipal Utilities - (MO).
Trenton North has reported about 8,867 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
