Pine Grove

Waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Approximate location 40.5553, -76.3886.

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Pine Grove is a 5 MW waste power plant in Pennsylvania, United States of America. It is operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 0 GWh, it can supply roughly 57 homes. It ranks #5525 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

5MW installed capacity
0GWh reported / yr
57homes powered
2008commissioned (~18 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056690.

Reported generation trend

2013: 7 GWh20132014: 6 GWh20142015: 3 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 1 GWh20172018: 1 GWh20182019: 0 GWh20197 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Industrial Power Generating Company LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
3,029heating degree-days (base 18°C)
359cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
160 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 1 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 23% 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: 63/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #321 largest waste power plant of 541 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 541 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 9,768 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.5553, -76.3886 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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