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International Paper Georgetown Mill

Waste power plant in South Carolina, United States of America. Approximate location 33.3602, -79.3026.

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International Paper Georgetown Mill is a 96 MW waste power plant in South Carolina, United States of America. It is operated by International Paper Co-GT Mill. Based on reported annual generation of 488 GWh, it can supply roughly 139,457 homes. It ranks #2048 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1979, it is around 47 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

96MW installed capacity
488GWh reported / yr
139,457homes powered
1979commissioned (~47 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054087.

Reported generation trend

2013: 506 GWh20132014: 533 GWh20142015: 486 GWh20152016: 506 GWh20162017: 524 GWh20172018: 508 GWh20182019: 488 GWh2019533 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by International Paper Co-GT Mill.

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.1°Cannual mean temp
1,027heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,064cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
2 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 19 °CON: 14 °CND: 10 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 58% 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: 26/100 — 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

The #14 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 33.3602, -79.3026 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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