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Britannia LFG

Biomass power plant in Ontario, Canada. Approximate location 43.6067, -79.6972.

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Britannia LFG is a 6 MW biomass power plant in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by Region of Peel. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 7,571 homes (estimated). It ranks #893 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.6% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
7,571homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0007703.

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Region of Peel.

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.3°Cannual mean temp
3,697heating degree-days (base 18°C)
184cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
113 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -4 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 10 °CON: 4 °CND: -1 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 50% 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 #75 largest biomass power plant of 111 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 111 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,742 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.6067, -79.6972 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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