Gas power plant in Montana, United States. Approximate location 45.6599, -108.7608.
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Yellowstone County Generating Station is a 207 MW gas power station in Montana, United States. It is operated by NorthWestern Energy Group Inc. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 233,141 homes (estimated). It ranks #27 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 149,320 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 34,807 cars driven for a year.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-913.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by NorthWestern Energy Group Inc. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.7°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 53% 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: 81/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% 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.
The #25 largest gas power plant of 125 in United States by capacity.
United States has 125 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,886 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.6599, -108.7608 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
