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ReEnergy Black River

Waste power plant in New York, United States of America. Approximate location 44.0365, -75.772.

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ReEnergy Black River is a 56 MW waste power plant in New York, United States of America. It is operated by Black River Generation LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 296 GWh, it can supply roughly 84,457 homes. It ranks #2613 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 13,625 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 3,176 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

56MW installed capacity
296GWh reported / yr
84,457homes powered
13,625t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
1989commissioned (~37 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0010464.

13,625 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

3,176passenger cars driven for a year
1,777homes' yearly energy use
227,083tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 0 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 296 GWh2019296 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Black River Generation LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.9°Cannual mean temp
4,436heating degree-days (base 18°C)
52cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
352 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -9 °CJF: -8 °CFM: -2 °CMA: 5 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 8 °CON: 2 °CND: -5 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 90/100 — 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 #54 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 44.0365, -75.772 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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