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Warrego

Gas power plant in Northern Territory, Australia. Approximate location -19.4434, 133.8236.

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Warrego is a 19 MW gas power plant in Northern Territory, Australia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21,399 homes (estimated). It ranks #326 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 16.4% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

19MW installed capacity
21,399homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000262.

~29,959 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

6,983passenger cars driven for a year
3,907homes' yearly energy use
499,320tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Australia

Tomago Aluminium Smelter: 810 MW810Tomago Alu…Torrens Island B: 800 MW800Torrens Is…Colongra: 724 MW724ColongraUranquinty: 664 MW664UranquintyDarling Downs: 644 MW644Darling Do…Pinjar: 576 MW576PinjarMortlake: 566 MW566MortlakeBraemar 2: 519 MW519Braemar 2

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

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 hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 19.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.9°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,878cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
319 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 31 °CJF: 30 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 28 °CON: 30 °CND: 31 °CD31 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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 ~8% 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 #114 largest gas power plant of 142 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 142 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 21,303 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -19.4434, 133.8236 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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