Waste power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America. Approximate location 46.7353, -92.1517.
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M L Hibbard is a 73 MW waste power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America. It is operated by ALLETE Inc.. Based on reported annual generation of 22 GWh, it can supply roughly 6,228 homes. It ranks #2349 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1950, it is around 76 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 13,102 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 3,054 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 USA0001897.
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 ALLETE Inc.. All plants by this company →
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 46.7°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% 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: 94/100 — 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.
The #26 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 46.7353, -92.1517 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
