Waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 26.6315, -81.7607.
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Lee County Solid Waste Energy is a 59 MW waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Lee County Board-Commissioners. Based on reported annual generation of 338 GWh, it can supply roughly 96,714 homes. It ranks #2567 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 494,830 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 115,345 cars driven for a year. 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 USA0052010.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Lee County Board-Commissioners.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.6°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 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
The #46 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 26.6315, -81.7607 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
