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Genesee Power Station LP

Waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 43.0851, -83.6694.

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Genesee Power Station LP is a 40 MW waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. It is operated by CMS Generation Operating LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 87 GWh, it can supply roughly 24,771 homes. It ranks #3032 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

40MW installed capacity
87GWh reported / yr
24,771homes powered
1996commissioned (~30 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054751.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 139 GWh20142015: 71 GWh20152016: 110 GWh20162017: 98 GWh20172018: 77 GWh20182019: 87 GWh2019139 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by CMS Generation Operating LLC. 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 humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.3°Cannual mean temp
3,732heating degree-days (base 18°C)
202cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
236 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -5 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 52% 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: 80/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #80 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 43.0851, -83.6694 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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