Oil power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. Approximate location 43.7445, -93.7241.
OilMinnesotaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported
Wells IC is a 8 MW oil power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. It is operated by City of Wells - (MN). Based on reported annual generation of 0 GWh, it can supply roughly 85 homes. It ranks #4913 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1962, it is around 64 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 11,645 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,714 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 USA0002020.
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 City of Wells - (MN).
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 43.7°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 72% 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: 87/100 — 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.
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 #392 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.
Coordinates 43.7445, -93.7241 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
