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Brent Run Generating Station

Waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 43.1764, -83.848.

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Brent Run Generating Station is a 7 MW waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. It is operated by EDL Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 51 GWh, it can supply roughly 14,457 homes. It ranks #5137 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2005, it is around 21 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

7MW installed capacity
51GWh reported / yr
14,457homes powered
2005commissioned (~21 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054910.

Reported generation trend

2014: 41 GWh20142015: 40 GWh20152016: 44 GWh20162017: 49 GWh20172018: 49 GWh20182019: 51 GWh201951 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by EDL Inc. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.4°Cannual mean temp
3,708heating degree-days (base 18°C)
214cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
229 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -5 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 51% 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: 80/100 — 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 #263 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 43.1764, -83.848 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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