Waste power plant in California, United States. Approximate location 33.9949, -118.1538.
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Commerce Refuse To Energy is an waste power plant in California, United States. It is operated by Los Angeles County Sanitation. It ranks #167 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1822.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Los Angeles County Sanitation. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.0°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 80% 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: 20/100 — 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.
United States has 9 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 124 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 33.9949, -118.1538 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
