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Brunswick Cellulose

Biomass power plant in Georgia, United States of America. Approximate location 31.1754, -81.5216.

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Brunswick Cellulose is a 72 MW biomass power plant in Georgia, United States of America. It is operated by Brunswick Cellulose LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 488 GWh, it can supply roughly 139,285 homes. It ranks #2357 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1965, it is around 61 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, biomass supplies about 1.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

72MW installed capacity
488GWh reported / yr
139,285homes powered
1965commissioned (~61 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010605.

Reported generation trend

2013: 436 GWh20132014: 427 GWh20142015: 460 GWh20152016: 456 GWh20162017: 433 GWh20172018: 464 GWh20182019: 488 GWh2019488 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Brunswick Cellulose LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

19.9°Cannual mean temp
646heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,365cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 21 °CON: 17 °CND: 13 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 74% 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: 22/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #29 largest biomass power plant of 153 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 153 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 5,123 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.1754, -81.5216 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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