Biomass power plant in Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 37.2914, -77.2816.
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Hopewell Mill is a 48 MW biomass power plant in Virginia, United States of America. It is operated by RockTenn-Hopewell. Based on reported annual generation of 262 GWh, it can supply roughly 74,885 homes. It ranks #2829 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1981, it is around 45 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 494,746 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 115,325 cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 1.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050813.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by RockTenn-Hopewell.
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 37.3°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 21% 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: 42/100 — 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 #53 largest biomass power plant of 153 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 153 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 5,123 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.2914, -77.2816 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
