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Camden Resource Recovery Facility

Waste power plant in New Jersey, United States of America. Approximate location 39.9092, -75.1169.

WasteNew JerseyUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

Camden Resource Recovery Facility is a 35 MW waste power plant in New Jersey, United States of America. It is operated by Covanta Camden Energy Recovery Center. Based on reported annual generation of 150 GWh, it can supply roughly 42,885 homes. It ranks #3139 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1991, it is around 35 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 293,530 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 68,422 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

35MW installed capacity
150GWh reported / yr
42,885homes powered
293,530t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1991commissioned (~35 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010435.

293,530 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

68,422passenger cars driven for a year
38,280homes' yearly energy use
4,892,167tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 150 GWh2019150 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Covanta Camden Energy Recovery Center.

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.7°Cannual mean temp
2,487heating degree-days (base 18°C)
593cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
13 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 14 °CON: 8 °CND: 3 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 1% 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: 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 #92 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 39.9092, -75.1169 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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