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Williams Ignacio Natural Gas Plant

Cogeneration power plant in Colorado, United States of America. Approximate location 37.1456, -107.7847.

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Williams Ignacio Natural Gas Plant is a 6 MW cogeneration power plant in Colorado, United States of America. It is operated by Harvest Midstream Co. Based on reported annual generation of 44 GWh, it can supply roughly 12,428 homes. It ranks #5325 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1985, it is around 41 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
44GWh reported / yr
12,428homes powered
1985commissioned (~41 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050205.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 40 GWh20152016: 42 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 44 GWh201944 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Harvest Midstream Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This cogeneration plant produces electricity and useful heat together for higher fuel efficiency. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.3°Cannual mean temp
3,654heating degree-days (base 18°C)
143cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
2,081 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 9 °CON: 2 °CND: -3 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 49% 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: 79/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #26 largest cogeneration power plant of 34 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 34 cogeneration power plants in this dataset, together about 1,042 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.1456, -107.7847 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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