Waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. Approximate location 44.7708, -122.612.
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Evergreen BioPower LLC is a 21 MW waste power plant in Oregon, United States of America. It is operated by Evergreen BioPower LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 55 GWh, it can supply roughly 15,685 homes. It ranks #3629 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056781.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Evergreen BioPower LLC.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°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 16% 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: 58/100 — 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.
The #137 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 44.7708, -122.612 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
