Waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 54.8908, -1.5868.
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PG4 St Bedes Power Generation is a 2 MW waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by DURHAM COUNTY WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,753 homes (estimated). It ranks #2301 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000566.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by DURHAM COUNTY WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.9°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 37% 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: 73/100 — 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 #212 largest waste power plant of 329 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 329 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,886 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.8908, -1.5868 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
