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Anson Abenaki Hydros

Hydro power plant in Maine, United States of America. Approximate location 44.7975, -69.8867.

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Anson Abenaki Hydros is a 29 MW hydro power plant in Maine, United States of America. It is operated by Eagle Creek RE LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 130 GWh, it can supply roughly 37,114 homes. It ranks #3325 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1980, it is around 46 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 5.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

29MW installed capacity
130GWh reported / yr
37,114homes powered
1980commissioned (~46 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010186.

Reported generation trend

2013: 147 GWh20132014: 137 GWh20142015: 134 GWh20152016: 108 GWh20162017: 132 GWh20172018: 133 GWh20182019: 130 GWh2019147 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Eagle Creek RE LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.1°Cannual mean temp
4,406heating degree-days (base 18°C)
85cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
105 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -9 °CJF: -7 °CFM: -2 °CMA: 5 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 8 °CON: 2 °CND: -5 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 79% 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: 89/100 — 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 #407 largest hydro power plant of 1449 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1449 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 101,657 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.7975, -69.8867 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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