Buckeye Florida LP

Biomass power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 30.0688, -83.5253.

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Buckeye Florida LP is a 69 MW biomass power plant in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Buckeye Florida Ltd Partners. Based on reported annual generation of 322 GWh, it can supply roughly 91,942 homes. It ranks #2401 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1978, it is around 48 years old — long-established. 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).

69MW installed capacity
322GWh reported / yr
91,942homes powered
1978commissioned (~48 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050466.

Reported generation trend

2013: 388 GWh20132014: 316 GWh20142015: 333 GWh20152016: 335 GWh20162017: 307 GWh20172018: 308 GWh20182019: 322 GWh2019388 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Buckeye Florida Ltd Partners.

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 30.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.0°Cannual mean temp
583heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,339cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
23 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 21 °CON: 17 °CND: 13 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 76% 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 #33 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 30.0688, -83.5253 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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