Waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 37.3517, -77.4969.
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Chesterfield Landfill Gas is a 14 MW waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. It is operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 56 GWh, it can supply roughly 16,114 homes. It ranks #4169 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2004, it is around 22 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 9,458 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,205 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056684.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 42/100 — 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.
The #170 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.
Coordinates 37.3517, -77.4969 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
