Fernandina Plant

Waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 30.6612, -81.473.

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Fernandina Plant is a 42 MW waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Rayonier Advanced Materials. Based on reported annual generation of 234 GWh, it can supply roughly 66,828 homes. It ranks #2953 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1982, it is around 44 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

42MW installed capacity
234GWh reported / yr
66,828homes powered
1982commissioned (~44 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010562.

Reported generation trend

2013: 267 GWh20132014: 262 GWh20142015: 255 GWh20152016: 218 GWh20162017: 250 GWh20172018: 256 GWh20182019: 234 GWh2019267 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Rayonier Advanced Materials. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.3°Cannual mean temp
533heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,404cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 22 °CON: 17 °CND: 13 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 78% 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: 21/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #74 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 30.6612, -81.473 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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