MH Bio-Ethanol Distillery is a 23 MW waste power plant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 31,936 homes (estimated). It ranks #8 of 16 Cambodia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 499 gCO₂/kWh (40.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1026843.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 11.8°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 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 #1 largest waste power plant of 2 in Cambodia by capacity.
Cambodia has 2 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 25 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 11.7594, 104.8242 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
