Biomass power plant in California, United States. Approximate location 40.8054, -124.1949.
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Pulp Mill Power House is an biomass power plant in California, United States. It ranks #166 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1821.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.8°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 7% 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: 48/100 — 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.
United States has 30 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 302 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.8054, -124.1949 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
