Waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. Approximate location 26.7714, -80.1419.
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Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 is a 62 MW waste power plant in Florida, United States of America. It is operated by Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Co. Based on reported annual generation of 351 GWh, it can supply roughly 100k homes. It ranks #3434 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. 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 USA0050071.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109 nameplate capacity; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 62 MW, Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 is well above the median waste plant in United States of America (7 MW). Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Co.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #41 largest waste power plant of 551 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 551 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 10,154 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 26.7714, -80.1419 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 is a 62 MW source-record waste power plant in Florida, United States of America, commissioned in 1989.
Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 generates about 351 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 100,400 homes.
Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 1 is operated by Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Co.
