King & Queen

Waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 37.6711, -76.76.

WasteVirginiaUnited States of AmericaCO₂ reported

King & Queen is a 11 MW waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. It is operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 61 GWh, it can supply roughly 17,314 homes. It ranks #4484 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 15,693 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 3,658 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

11MW installed capacity
61GWh reported / yr
17,314homes powered
15,693t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2008commissioned (~18 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056686.

15,693 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

3,658passenger cars driven for a year
2,047homes' yearly energy use
261,550tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2013: 35 GWh20132014: 64 GWh20142015: 64 GWh20152016: 62 GWh20162017: 64 GWh20172018: 67 GWh20182019: 61 GWh201967 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. All plants by this company →

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 37.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.4°Cannual mean temp
1,999heating degree-days (base 18°C)
687cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
23 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 15 °CON: 10 °CND: 5 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 19% 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: 43/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #212 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 37.6711, -76.76 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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