Biomass power plant in Colorado, United States of America. Approximate location 39.8078, -104.9542.
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Metro Wastewater Reclamation District is a 15 MW biomass power plant in Colorado, United States of America. It is operated by Colorado Energy Nations Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 34 GWh, it can supply roughly 9,657 homes. It ranks #4129 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. In context, biomass supplies about 1.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010180.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Colorado Energy Nations Company LLC. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.8°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 26% 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: 65/100 — 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.
The #70 largest biomass power plant of 153 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 153 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 5,123 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.8078, -104.9542 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
