Mountain View

Waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Approximate location 39.8014, -77.7883.

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Mountain View is a 14 MW waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. It is operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 41 GWh, it can supply roughly 11,800 homes. It ranks #4174 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2003, it is around 23 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

14MW installed capacity
41GWh reported / yr
11,800homes powered
2003commissioned (~23 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056687.

Reported generation trend

2013: 10 GWh20132014: 14 GWh20142015: 11 GWh20152016: 23 GWh20162017: 24 GWh20172018: 31 GWh20182019: 41 GWh201941 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.5°Cannual mean temp
2,809heating degree-days (base 18°C)
448cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
177 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 7 °CND: 1 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 14% 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: 57/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #171 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.

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Location

Coordinates 39.8014, -77.7883 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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