Waste power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 36.7559, -120.3654.
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Covanta Mendota is a 28 MW waste power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by Covanta Mendota LP. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 38,544 homes (estimated). It ranks #3350 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. 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 USA0010837.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Covanta Mendota LP.
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 36.8°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 46% 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: 31/100 — 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.
The #105 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 36.7559, -120.3654 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
