Mt Gambier is a 10 MW biomass power plant in South Australia, Australia. It is operated by Carter Holt Harvey Wood Products Australia Pty Limited. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 13,765 homes (estimated). It ranks #369 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.1% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000443.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Carter Holt Harvey Wood Products Australia Pty Limited.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 35% 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: 36/100 — 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 #21 largest biomass power plant of 31 in Australia by capacity.
Australia has 31 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 720 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -37.8388, 140.8057 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
