Petcoke power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 27.8175, -97.4814.
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Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West is a 69 MW petcoke power plant in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by Valero Refining Co. Based on reported annual generation of 191 GWh, it can supply roughly 55k homes. It ranks #3330 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1983, it is around 43 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 66,271 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 15k 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 USA0050121.
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 69 MW, Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West is around the median petcoke plant in United States of America (68 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 Valero Refining Co.
This petcoke plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.8°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 89% 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: 18/100 — 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 #5 largest petcoke power plant of 11 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 11 petcoke power plants in this dataset, together about 2,366 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 27.8175, -97.4814 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West is a 69 MW source-record petcoke power plant in Texas, United States of America, commissioned in 1983.
Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West generates about 191 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 54,571 homes.
Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West is operated by Valero Refining Co.
Valero Refinery Corpus Christi West has modelled emissions of about 66,271 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
