Dillard Complex

Waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. Approximate location 43.0895, -123.4156.

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Dillard Complex is a 52 MW waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. It is operated by Roseburg Forest Products Co. Based on reported annual generation of 134 GWh, it can supply roughly 38,171 homes. It ranks #2687 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1955, it is around 71 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

52MW installed capacity
134GWh reported / yr
38,171homes powered
1955commissioned (~71 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050396.

Reported generation trend

2013: 160 GWh20132014: 167 GWh20142015: 144 GWh20152016: 139 GWh20162017: 134 GWh20172018: 144 GWh20182019: 134 GWh2019167 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Roseburg Forest Products Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.9°Cannual mean temp
2,346heating degree-days (base 18°C)
113cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
402 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 7 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 12 °CON: 8 °CND: 5 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 5% 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: 48/100 — 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 #60 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 43.0895, -123.4156 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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