Keystone Recovery

Waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Approximate location 41.4363, -75.5984.

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Keystone Recovery is a 6 MW waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. It is operated by APTIM Environmental & Infrastructure. Based on reported annual generation of 40 GWh, it can supply roughly 11,457 homes. It ranks #5456 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
40GWh reported / yr
11,457homes powered
1995commissioned (~31 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054934.

Reported generation trend

2013: 43 GWh20132014: 42 GWh20142015: 43 GWh20152016: 42 GWh20162017: 42 GWh20172018: 43 GWh20182019: 40 GWh201943 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by APTIM Environmental & Infrastructure. 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 41.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.0°Cannual mean temp
3,760heating degree-days (base 18°C)
130cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
436 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -5 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 4 °CND: -2 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 53% 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: 81/100 — 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 #313 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 41.4363, -75.5984 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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