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Deercroft I & II LFGTE

Waste power plant in Indiana, United States of America. Approximate location 41.6514, -86.9036.

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Deercroft I & II LFGTE is a 6 MW waste power plant in Indiana, United States of America. It is operated by Wabash Valley Power Assn Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 22 GWh, it can supply roughly 6,285 homes. It ranks #5262 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2003, it is around 23 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
22GWh reported / yr
6,285homes powered
2003commissioned (~23 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054956.

Reported generation trend

2013: 31 GWh20132014: 31 GWh20142015: 26 GWh20152016: 25 GWh20162017: 25 GWh20172018: 23 GWh20182019: 22 GWh201931 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Wabash Valley Power Assn Inc. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.5°Cannual mean temp
3,387heating degree-days (base 18°C)
320cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
245 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 4 °CND: -2 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 38% 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: 73/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #282 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 41.6514, -86.9036 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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