Retired waste power-station site in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 42.3678, -83.0514.
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Greater Detroit Resource Recovery is a retired waste power station in Michigan, United States of America. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #3343 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. 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 CT-1937.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: EIA-860M May 2026 retired generator inventory, summed by Plant ID; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 68.4 MW, Greater Detroit Resource Recovery is well above the median waste plant in United States of America (6.6 MW). Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #33 largest waste power plant of 551 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 551 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 10,154 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.3678, -83.0514 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Greater Detroit Resource Recovery was a waste-fired power station in Michigan, United States of America and was retired.
