Biomass power plant in Louisiana, United States of America. Approximate location 32.4868, -92.1496.
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Plant 31 Paper Mill is a 84 MW biomass power plant in Louisiana, United States of America. It is operated by Graphic Packaging International. Based on reported annual generation of 614 GWh, it can supply roughly 175k homes. It ranks #3042 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1991, it is around 35 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 56,962 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 13k cars driven for a year. 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050028.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109 nameplate capacity; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 84 MW, Plant 31 Paper Mill is well above the median biomass plant in United States of America (18 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Graphic Packaging International.
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 32.5°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 54% 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: 28/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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 a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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 #24 largest biomass power plant of 184 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 184 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 6,324 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 32.4868, -92.1496 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Plant 31 Paper Mill is a 84 MW source-record biomass power plant in Louisiana, United States of America, commissioned in 1991.
Plant 31 Paper Mill generates about 614 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 175,342 homes.
Plant 31 Paper Mill is operated by Graphic Packaging International.
Plant 31 Paper Mill has modelled emissions of about 56,962 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
