Electric generating plantEIA plant no. 56539

Clark-Floyd Landfill Gas Generating

Type
Landfill Gas
Status
Retired July 2018
Nameplate (when running)
3.6 MW
Units
3
In service since
2007–2009
Operator
Hoosier Energy R E C, Inc
Location
Borden, Clark County, Indiana

Clark-Floyd Landfill Gas Generating is retired. EIA's monthly generator inventory (EIA-860M, August 2026) lists every generator at this natural gas plant as retired; the last one retired in July 2018. It is not counted among Indiana's operating plants or in any ranking on this site.

The figures below describe the plant when it ran: equipment from EIA Form 860 (2024).

The 3.6 MW is nameplate capacity: the most this plant's generators are rated to produce, not what it actually generates. EPA eGRID reports no positive net generation for it this year.

How it works

A reciprocating-engine plant

landfill gas1pistons fire like a car engine2generator
  1. landfill gas burns in cylinders, driving pistons — the same principle as a truck engine, much larger.
  2. The crankshaft turns a generator.
  3. Plants are built from several identical engines, so they can run one at a time or all together.

Why the numbers look like this: engines start in minutes and come in small blocks, so they show up at landfills, on islands and as backup or peaking units — places that need power in small, fast pieces.

This plant highlighted in navy-ringed pin; other generators within 25 miles shown as fuel-colored dots.

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Location

Address14304 State Rd. 60
CityBorden
CountyClark County
StateIndiana
ZIP47106
Coordinates38.45640, -85.83750
OperatorHoosier Energy R E C, Inc

Generators (3)

IDTechnologyFuelNameplate capacityStatusOnline
ICG3Landfill GasLandfill Gas1.4 MWRetired2009
ICG1Landfill GasLandfill Gas1.1 MWRetired2007
ICG2Landfill GasLandfill Gas1.1 MWRetired2007

Grid context

NERC RegionRFC
Balancing AuthorityMidcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..

About Natural Gas plants

Natural gas plants are the workhorse of the modern grid. Combined-cycle units achieve very high efficiency and can ramp up and down quickly to balance variable renewables. They emit roughly half the CO₂ per MWh of coal and far less of other pollutants, but they still release upstream methane during fuel extraction.

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