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Florida Power Development

Biomass power plant in Florida, United States. Approximate location 28.5819, -82.4311.

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Florida Power Development is an biomass power plant in Florida, United States. It ranks #169 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1825.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in United States

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

21.8°Cannual mean temp
223heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,620cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
34 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 15 °CJF: 16 °CFM: 19 °CMA: 21 °CAM: 24 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 23 °CON: 19 °CND: 16 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 91% 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: 17/100 — 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

United States has 30 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 302 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 28.5819, -82.4311 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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