Pine Bluff Mill

Biomass power plant in Arkansas, United States of America. Approximate location 34.2212, -91.9074.

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Pine Bluff Mill is a 85 MW biomass power plant in Arkansas, United States of America. It is operated by Evergreen Packaging Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 413 GWh, it can supply roughly 117,885 homes. It ranks #2142 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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).

85MW installed capacity
413GWh reported / yr
117,885homes powered
1959commissioned (~67 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010627.

Reported generation trend

2013: 403 GWh20132014: 424 GWh20142015: 408 GWh20152016: 414 GWh20162017: 423 GWh20172018: 394 GWh20182019: 413 GWh2019424 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Evergreen Packaging Inc.

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.1°Cannual mean temp
1,431heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,108cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
56 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 7 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 42% 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: 33/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #20 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 34.2212, -91.9074 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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