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Papillion Creek Wastewater

Biomass power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. Approximate location 41.0772, -95.87.

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Papillion Creek Wastewater is a 2 MW biomass power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. It is operated by Omaha City of. Based on reported annual generation of 7 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,942 homes. It ranks #8796 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1987, it is around 39 years old — long-established. In context, biomass supplies about 1.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
7GWh reported / yr
1,942homes powered
1987commissioned (~39 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0055027.

Reported generation trend

2013: 7 GWh20132014: 7 GWh20142015: 7 GWh20152016: 8 GWh20162017: 8 GWh20172018: 8 GWh20182019: 7 GWh20198 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Omaha City of. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.5°Cannual mean temp
3,222heating degree-days (base 18°C)
513cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
323 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 12 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 31% 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: 69/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #131 largest biomass power plant of 153 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 153 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 5,123 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.0772, -95.87 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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