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Wood River

Other power plant in Illinois, United States. Approximate location 38.8639, -90.1347.

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Wood River is an other power plant in Illinois, United States. It is operated by Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc. It ranks #99 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1746.

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

Owner

Operated by Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.9°Cannual mean temp
2,555heating degree-days (base 18°C)
708cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
130 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 14 °CON: 7 °CND: 1 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 4% 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: 52/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

United States has 38 other power plants in this dataset, together about 2,781 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 38.8639, -90.1347 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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