Biomass power plant in Ontario, Canada. Approximate location 46.5158, -79.4932.
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Merrick Landfill is a 2 MW biomass power plant in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by North Bay Hydro Services Inc. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,202 homes (estimated). It ranks #1114 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.6% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0008115.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by North Bay Hydro Services Inc.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 46.5°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 117% 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: 96/100 — 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 #99 largest biomass power plant of 111 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 111 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,742 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 46.5158, -79.4932 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
