Waste power plant in New York, United States of America. Approximate location 43.0637, -77.9329.
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Mill Seat Renewable Energy Facility is a 6 MW waste power plant in New York, United States of America. It is operated by WM Renewable Energy LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 52 GWh, it can supply roughly 14,885 homes. It ranks #5269 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. 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 USA0061012.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by WM Renewable Energy LLC. 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 43.1°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 51% 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: 80/100 — 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 #286 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 43.0637, -77.9329 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
