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Douglas County Forest Products

Waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. Approximate location 43.2898, -123.3616.

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Douglas County Forest Products is a 6 MW waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. It is operated by Douglas County Forest Products. Based on reported annual generation of 18 GWh, it can supply roughly 5,057 homes. It ranks #5289 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
18GWh reported / yr
5,057homes powered
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0061761.

Reported generation trend

2017: 28 GWh20172018: 28 GWh20182019: 18 GWh201928 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Douglas County Forest Products.

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 43.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.2°Cannual mean temp
2,226heating degree-days (base 18°C)
137cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
284 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 7 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 13 °CON: 8 °CND: 5 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 9% 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: 47/100 — 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 #298 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 43.2898, -123.3616 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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