Waste power plant in California, United States of America. Approximate location 40.3683, -120.2648.
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HL Power is a 36 MW waste power plant in California, United States of America. It is operated by HL Power Company. Based on reported annual generation of 189 GWh, it can supply roughly 54,000 homes. It ranks #3108 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. 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 USA0010777.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by HL Power Company.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.4°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 26% 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: 65/100 — 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 #86 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 40.3683, -120.2648 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
