Port Edwards Mill

Hydro power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America. Approximate location 44.3364, -89.8672.

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Port Edwards Mill is a 7 MW hydro power plant in Wisconsin, United States of America. It is operated by Domtar Industries Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 22 GWh, it can supply roughly 6,228 homes. It ranks #5196 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1930, it is around 96 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 5.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

7MW installed capacity
22GWh reported / yr
6,228homes powered
1930commissioned (~96 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054103.

Reported generation trend

2013: 38 GWh20132014: 41 GWh20142015: 42 GWh20152016: 44 GWh20162017: 40 GWh20172018: 38 GWh20182019: 22 GWh201944 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Domtar Industries Inc. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.6°Cannual mean temp
4,307heating degree-days (base 18°C)
175cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
315 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -10 °CJF: -7 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 9 °CON: 0 °CND: -7 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 75% 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: 88/100 — 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 #773 largest hydro power plant of 1449 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1449 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 101,657 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.3364, -89.8672 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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