Biomass One LP

Waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. Approximate location 42.4361, -122.85.

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Biomass One LP is a 40 MW waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. It is operated by Biomass One LP. Based on reported annual generation of 163 GWh, it can supply roughly 46,485 homes. It ranks #2997 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

40MW installed capacity
163GWh reported / yr
46,485homes powered
1994commissioned (~32 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010869.

Reported generation trend

2013: 172 GWh20132014: 195 GWh20142015: 153 GWh20152016: 155 GWh20162017: 117 GWh20172018: 166 GWh20182019: 163 GWh2019195 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Biomass One LP.

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.9°Cannual mean temp
2,428heating degree-days (base 18°C)
216cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
563 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 3 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 1% below 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: 50/100 — 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

The #77 largest waste power plant of 541 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 541 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 9,768 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 42.4361, -122.85 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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